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Monumentum

Altar of Deo Mercurio from Dieburg

Small yellow-red sandstone altar from the Mithraeum at Dieburg dedicated to Deo sancto Mercurio
 
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28 May 2026

TNMM 2183 ↔ CIMRM 1267

Small altar in yellow-red sandstone (H. 0.35 Br. 0.17–0.145 D. 0.09) found near 9. Inv. No. 148/52.

Behn, 37 No. 22 and fig. 46; Finke in BRGK XVII, 1927, 59f No. 184.

L.H. 0.01–0.015.

Deo xanc/to Mercu/rio Prisc/[i]nius Sed/ulius v(otum) / s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

l. 1: xancto = sancto; cf. Commodianus, Instr., 1, 35, 21 and 2, 19, 21.

l. 4–5: Sedulius is a Celtic name: Holder, Altcelt. Sprachschatz II, 1433 cited by Finke, l.c., 60. Cf. No. 1256.

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