Altar of Benifayó

TNMM 528 ↔ CIMRM 807bis

Altar (H. 0.68 Br. 0.38 D. 0.40) found at Benifayo, near a branch of the river Muça. Valencia, Provincial Museum.

Invicto / Mithrae / Lucanus / ser(vus).

It bears an inscription on its front face. It was discovered by chance in 1922 in front of a trough fed by a spring known as Font de Mussa, which has now disappeared. The fountain was located about 1 km from Benifaió, 22 km south of Valencia, in the western part of the Albufera plains.

Unconquered / Mithrae / Lucanus / Ser(vus).

To the Invictus Mithras the slave Lucanus.

Clauss (1992, p. 75), siguiendo a García y Bellido, indica que el altar fue hallado junto con fragmentos arquitectónicos que deberían corresponder a los restos del edificio del mitreo.

CIMRM II 807bis

Altar (H. 0.68 Br. 0.38 D. 0.40) found at Benifayo, near a branch of the river Muça. Valencia, Provincial Museum.

García y Bellido in BAH CXXII, 1948, 299 and fig. 2.

Invicto / Mithrae / Lucanus / scr(vus).

Comments

Pattie L

CIMRM 807bis
Vol 2, page 36

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The New Mithraeum

Thanks Pattie!

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