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Monumentum

Reused altar with Mithras dedication from Dieburg

Red sandstone altar from the Mithraeum at Dieburg that had been reused, its original inscription obliterated and replaced with a dedication to Deo invicto Mithrae
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2181 ↔ CIMRM 1265

Altar in red sandstone (H. 0.56 Br. 0.335 D. 0.24).

Nass., 30f No. 18 and Pl. V, 4. See fig. 330.

The altar had already been used; its original inscription has been obliterated. The front has a new inscription between two rosettes; on the l. side two knives; on the r. side an axe.

CIL XIII 11759.

L.H. 0.016–0.027.

D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Iul(ius) Constans / mil(es) leg(ionis) XXII / p(rimigeniae) p(iae) f(idelis) v(otum) s(olvit) / l(ibens) m(erito).

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