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Monumentum

Altar of Lucius Valerius Fuscus from Troesmis territory

Limestone altar from the Territorium Troesmense, Moesia Inferior, dedicated to Invicto Mithrae sacrum by Lucius Valerius Fuscus, centurion of a legion.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Altar in limestone (H. 0.49 Br. 0.25 D. 0.22), probably from Braila in the Territorium Troesmense. Jași, Lapidarium of the Historical Museum (Inv. No. 267).Gr. Anițescu in Arta și Arkeologia III, 1929, 15.Inv[icto] Mi/th[rae] [s]ac(rum) / L. Valerius / Fuscus c(enturio) / leg(ionis) V Mac(edonicae) / v(otum) s(olvit).N. Gostar, Director of the Museum at Iași, in a letter to Prof. C. Daicoviciu suggests the name of V(e)nerius instead of Valerius. But L. Valerius is a very common name.

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