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Note on possibly non-Mithraic inscriptions from Apulum

Author's observation that several inscriptions from Apulum, Dacia (CIL III 1096, 1095, 1154, 1002) may belong to a sanctuary of Diana rather than to a Mithraeum.

The New Mithraeum

27 May 2026

I suppose that the inscriptions CIL III 1096; 1095 (= MMM II Nos. 239–241); CIL III 1154; CIL III 1002 the three first of which were found together in 1846 do not belong to a Mithraeum but possibly to a sanctuary of Diana. Cumont suggested that M. Comatius Exsuperatus, who with his family dedicated cryptam cum porticibus et apparatorio et exedra erected a Mithraeum.

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