Monumentum
Altar of Caius Iulius Valens from Șard near Apulum
Inscription from the village of Șard near Apulum, Dacia, dedicated to Soli invicto for the welfare of the Emperor, the Roman people, and the ordo of the Colonia Apuli by Caius Iulius Valens.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2416 ↔ CIMRM 1998
'Sardae prope Albam ad fores cuiusdam domus privatae'. Sardae = in vico Șard prope Apulum; Sardae est nomen modernum (Daicoviciu).
CIL III 1114; MMM II No. 304.
[Soli in]/victo pro sa/lute imp(eratoris) p(opuli)q(ue) R(omani) / et ordinis col(oniae) / Apul(i) C. Iul(ius) Va/lens har(uspex) col(oniae) s(upra) s(criptae) / et antistes hu/iusque loci / v(oto) l(ibens) p(osuit).
Valens dedicated altars to Venus Victrix (CIL III 1115) and to the Virtus romana (CIL III 1116).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
