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Sepulchral inscription with Mithraic grade from Philippi

Third-century sepulchral inscription from near Philippi, Macedonia, studied for its Mithraic content in the upper lines of the text.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
Vollgraff in Homm. Bidez-Cumont, 353ff studies a sepulchral inscription of the third century found in the Castle of Doxato near the ruins of ancient Philippi (CIL III 686; Perdrizet, Cultes Pangée, 95 ff; Cook, Zeus, II (l), 124, 4; Dölger in AC II 1930, 107ff; Bücheler, Carm. Ep., II, 1233).l. 13ff:sic placitum est divis a[e]terna vivere form[a] / qui bene de supero [n]umine sit meritus: / quae tibi castifico promisit munera cursu / olim iussa deo simplicitas facilis.In l. 14 the text is dubious; [n]umine or [l]umine.Vollgraff is of the opinion that the youthful deceased was initiated in…

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