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Monumentum

Altar to Mithras by Marcus Valerius Maximianus from Lambaesis

Limestone altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by the governor and military commander Marcus Valerius Maximianus.
 
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27 May 2026

TNMM 2029 ↔ CIMRM 138B

Altar in limestone (H. 1.09 Br. 0.47 D. 0.47) with a circular hollow in the top.

CRAI 1954, 272f.

L.H. 0.05–0.045; traces of red in the letters.

Soli / deo / invicto / Mithrae / sacrum / M. Valerius / Maximianus / leg(atus) Aug(usti) / pr(o) pr(actore).

M. Valerius Maximianus: See No. 137. He is a native of Poetovio where the Mithras cult was wide-spread (see Nos. 1487ff.). He commanded the Legio III Augusta during A.D. 183–185 (L. Leschi in BATH 1934–1935, 157, 356f). About his career and about his wife Ulpia Aristonica: CRAI 1954, 273 n. 2 and 275f. As commander of the Legio XIII Gemina in Dacia he dedicated an inscription to Mithras at Apulum: CIL III 1122 (see No. 1956).

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