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Monumentum

Inscription of Corax Materninius Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

The inscription was located at the base of the main Tauroctony of the Gimmeldingen Mithraeum.
Incriptio of Corax from Gimmeldingen

Incriptio of Corax from Gimmeldingen
Haselburg-Müller

 
The New Mithraeum
27 Jan 2022
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 441 ↔ CIMRM 1315

Votive monument in red sandstone, in three fragments (H. 0.37 Br. 2.35 D. 0.20). It stood on the base and supported the cult-relief. The first part of the inscription is in a tabula ansata and is decorated with a palmbranch.

L.H.0.045.

In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / deo inviht[o] (sic!) Midre (sic!) / Maternin[i]us Faustinu(s) / carax (sic!) fan[um] cum solo inviht[o] / in suo fecit c[ onsac]ratus XI k(alendis) Feb(ruariis). Fanus consacrat(us) / per Potentianum / patrem co(n)s(ulibus) / Paulino et Iuliano /l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

l. 2: Midre: Sprater reads Mithre.
l. 5: XI k.: Sprater and Finke read X K.

22 January of 325 A.D.

Main inscription

In h[onorem] d[omus] d[ivinae] / deo inviht[o] [sic] Midre [sic] / Maternin[i]us Faustinu[s] / carax [sic] fan[um] cum solo inviht[o] / in suo fecit c[ onsac]ratus XI k[alendis] Feb[ruariis].
Fanus [sic] consacrat[us] / per Potentianum / patrem co[n]s[ulibus] / Paulino et Iuliano /l[ibens] l[aetus] m[erito].
In honour of the divine house, to the invincible god Mithras, Materninius Faustinus, Crow, consecrated a shrine with [a statue of] the invincible Sol, on his property [in suo], on the tenth day before the calendars of February. Sanctuary [fanum] consecrated by Potentianus, Father, the consuls being [Sextus Anicius Faustus] Paulinus and [Ionis] Iulianus, willingly, joyfully and justly.

References

Sprater, 3 and fig. 1; H. Fincke in BRGK XVII, 1927, 52f No. 162.

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