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Monumentum

Altar from Vienna

Limestone altar from Vienna, ancient Vindobona in Pannonia Superior, found in 1896 together with two terracotta lamps; the dedicant and full text are not known from the summary description.
Altar from Vienna

Altar from Vienna
CIMRM

 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2351 ↔ CIMRM 1649

Altar in limestone (H. 0.75 Br. 0.46 D. 0.24) found in Wien XIX "Sieveringer Hauptstrase 132 together with two terracotta lamps and pots" in 2,3 m. Tiefe in Wien VI, Haydngasse 19 in 17.4.1896. Inv. 526 Abg. no. 55. One lamp bore the stamp Cresce s.

A. Neumann in Amtsblatt der Stadt Wien 57, 1952 (No. 95), 1; CIL III 14359; Kenner, Gesch. der Stadt Wien, I, Wien 1897, 105. See fig. 417.

L.H. 0.055–0.06.

I(nvicto) D(eo) M(ithrae) / pr(o) s(alute) Aug(usti) / Ulp(ius) Secun/dus m(iles) l(egionis) X g(eminae) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus).

"Der Umstand dasz sich in dem Heilhang, in dem der Altar stand, eine Höhle befand und der Fuszweg oberhalb derselben noch heute Teufelstiege heiszt, machen das Vorhandensein einer Mithraskultstätte an dieser Stelle sehr wahrscheinlich" (Neumann).

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