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Monumentum

Altar of Aquileia to the brave god Mithras

This altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.
Altar of Aquileia to the brave god Mithras.
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The New Mithraeum
8 Feb 2022
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 497 ↔ CIMRM 741

Found near Aquileia ’in un casale fuori di Aq. oltre la Villa di Monasterio vi sono in una colonna Ie tre seguenti iscrizioni’.

Deo f(orti) i(nvicto) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P. Aelius / Mercur(ialis) / Q. Tessig/nius Maxi/mia(nus) patr(es) / pros(esedente) T(ito) Aur(elio) / Victore v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).

The first part of the inscription D.F.I.M has been interpreted in different ways, reading the ’F’, as an ’I’. Cumont reads Deo invicto, invicto Mithrae, Vermaseren as well. Clauss see a Deo Inuicto insiuperabili Mithrae.

CIMRM II 741

T. Nagy in AErt 85, 1958, 111 suggests: Deo i(nvicto) i(nsuperabili?) M(ithrae) which is possible. But I cannot follow him in pro s(alu)t(e) Aur(elio) / Victore.

CIL V 805

Deo f[orti] i[nvicto] i[nvicto] M[ithrae] / P. Aelius / Mercur[ialis] / Q. Tessig/nius Maxi/mia[nus] patr[es] / pros[esedente] T[ito] Aur[elio] / Victore v[otum] s[olverunt] l[ibentes] m[erito].
To the brave [fortis] invincible god Mithras, Publius Aelius Mercurialis [and] Quintus Tessignius Maximianus, Patres, under the presidency of Titus Aurelius Victor, have willingly and rightly fulfilled their vow.

References

CIL V 805; MMM No. 169.

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