Altar to Mithras from Lambaesis

TNMM 2030 ↔ CIMRM 138C

Altar in limestone (H. 0.81 Br. 0.52 D. 0.52).

CRAI 1954, 273 and fig.

L.H. 0.035–0.04 with traces of red in the letters.

Deo Soli / invicto / Mythr(a)e / pro salute et / incolumitate / C(ai) Fabi Fabiani / Vetili(i) Luciliani / leg(ati) Aug(usti) pr(o) pr(actore) c(larissimi) v(iri) Celsianus act(arius) et not(arius) v(otum) l(ibens) a(nimo).

ls 6–7: C. Fabius Vetilius Lucilianus: CIL VIII 2737 (Lambaesis); CIL VIII 10990 (Cydamus). Pallu de Lessert, Fastes I, 429f places him in the reign of Severus Alexander (A.D. 222–235); according to B. Birley in JRS XL, 1950, 64 No. 13 he was a legatus in A.D. 230–232. In general: PIR² III, F 29 and G. Barbieri, L'albo senatorio da Settimio Severo a Carino (193–285), Roma 1952, 208 No. 1027.

l.9: actor et notarius: PWRE s.v. actarius, cf. CIL VIII 2534; 2526 and for the notarii CIL VIII 2775 cf. R. Cagnat, L'armée romaine en Afrique, Paris 1913², 136f.