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Monumentum

Stele from Histria

Marble stele from Histria, Moesia Inferior, found reused in a late wall in the southern quarter of the city, bearing a Mithraic dedication or scene.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2513 ↔ CIMRM 2296

Marble stele (H. 0.45 Br. 0.32 D. 0.18). Bucarest, National Museum. "Trouvée dans les décombres du quartier méridional de la ville d'Histria, au N.O. de la Basilique byzantine, comme matériel de construction d'un des murs tardifs des habitations de cette région."

Parvan in Dacia II 1925, 218ff No. 21 and fig. 32. Prof. D. M. Pippidi informs me that he will publish this important inscription again.

L.H. 0.12–0.15.

Τύχῃ ἀγαθῇ.

Ἡλίωι Μίθρα(ι) ἀνεικήτω(ι)

Ἐπὶ [ε[ρ]εῶ Ἰουλίου Σεουήρο[υ]

[β(ενεφικιάριου)] ὑπατικοῦ

οἵδε συνειστήνεγ[κα]ν εἰς τ[ὴν]

[ο]ἰκοδομίαν τοῦ ἱεροῦ

στηλέου καὶ [θεο]σέβει-

αν, ὑπτ[ρ]ετοῦ[ντ]ος πατρὸς

[ε]ὐσεβοῦς Μ[εν]ίσκου Νουμην[ίου]

[Μ.] Οὐλπ(ίος) ᾿Αρτεμίδωρος ποντάρ[χης]

[Τ]ιππόλοχος Πυθίωνος

[Κ]άρπος Ἀ[π]αλλοδώρου

[Κ]αλλίστρατος Ἀπολλοδώρου

[Α]ὔλ(ιος) Διονύσιος Δημοκράτου[ς]

[᾿Τ]ούλ(ιος) Βάσσος β(ενεφικιάριος) ὑπατικός

[Αὐ]ρήλιος Αἰμιλιανός

[Αὔ]λ(ιος) Φίρμος, Διονύσιος Διονυσοδ[ώρου].

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