Monumentum
Altar to Mithras by Valerius Florus from Lambaesis
Reworked limestone altar dedicated by the governor of Numidia during the period of the Diocletianic persecutions.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 2031 ↔ CIMRM 138D
Altar in limestone (H. 1.24 Br. 0.38–0.64 D. 0.64).
CRAI 1954, 274f and fig.
L.H. 0.07. At the top and at the base the altar shows letters of the original inscription which was altered afterwards.
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Val(erius) Florus / v(ir) p(erfectissimus) p(raeses) p(rovinciae) N(umidiae) m(ilitaris) / ex voto / posuit.
M. Valerius Florus was praeses in A.D. 303 in Numidia Cirtensis and Tripolitana (according to CIL VIII 6700 = 19353 of Ronfach = Castellum Mastarense; L. Leschi in CRAI 1941, 153ff and in Rev. Afr 1943, 5ff). He persecuted the Christians. Leglay, 275 n. 8 refers to Optatus, De Schism. Donatist., III, 8; August., Contra Crescon., III, 27 (= PL XLIII, 510–511); de Rossi in BAC 1875, 163.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
