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Monumentum

Altar with Phrygian cap from Altbachtal

The altar with a Phrygian cap and a dagger from Trier was erected by a Pater called Martius Martialis.
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The New Mithraeum
12 Mar 2022
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 525 ↔ CIMRM 987 & 987bis

Stone altar (H. 0.95 Br. 0.35 D. 0.28). Treves, Prov. Mus.

On the base a Phrygian cap. On the front an inscription:

D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Martius Martialis / pater / in suo posuit.

Corner pilaster at all four corners, on the cover plate pulvini. On the front of the base phrygian cap and dagger.

CIMRM 987bis

Aedicula in white sandstone (H. 0.335 Br. 0.22 D. 0.10) found in the Mithraeum in the Altbachtal, Treves, Rheinisches Landesmuseum (Inv. No. ST 12360). I am obliged to Dr E. Gose for the publication of this monument. See fig. 261.

The border of the roof is decorated with a waving line. In the centre of the aedicula part of the inscription and two holes.

L.H. 0.02–0.04.

D(eo) M(ithrae) i(nvicto) / Nicasius v(otum) [s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)].

CIMRM II 987bis

Aedicula in white sandstone (H. 0.335 Br. 0.22 D. 0.10) found in the Mithraeum in the Altbachtal. Treves, Rheinisches Landesmuseum (Inv. No. ST 12360). I am obliged to Dr E. Gose for the publication of this monument. See fig. 261.

H. Nesselhauf in BRGK XXVII, 1937, 55 No. 11.

The border of the roof is decorated with a waving line. In the centre of the aedicula part of the inscription and two holes.

L.H. 0.02–0.04.

D(eo) M(ithrae) / i(nvicto) / Nicasius v(otum) [s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)].

Main inscription

D[eo] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] / Martius / Martia/lis pater / in suo / posuit.
To the invincible god Mithras, Martius Martialis, Pater, in his domain, has deposited.

References

Esp. Rec. Gaule, X, 207 No. 7590. H. Nesselhauf in BRGK XXVII, 1937, 55 No. 11.

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