Monumentum
Altar of Marcus Laelius Aquila sacerdos from Dyrrachium
Stone from Durrës, ancient Dyrrachium in Macedonia, dedicated to Soli aeterno by Marcus Laelius Aquila, sacerdos; the name Aquila may correspond to a Mithraic grade.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2547 ↔ CIMRM 2342
Stone walled in at Durazzo near the "meschea del porto".
CIL III 604; cf. Sestieri in Epigraphica IV, 1942, 136 No. 13.
Soli aeterno M. Laelius Aquila sacerd(os).
Sestieri is of the opinion that the name Aquila corresponds with the greek ἀετός and is a grade of eagle. But this grade is not used (cf. Hieronymus, Ep. CVII ad Laetam). Aquila seems to me a cognomen, cf. Leo in No. 1711 (Deutsch-Altenburg).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
