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Monumentum

Inscription of Chyndonax

This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.
  • Epitaphe de Chyndonax, Grand-Prêtre de Mithra

    Epitaphe de Chyndonax, Grand-Prêtre de Mithra
    Jean Guenebauld 

  • Cuve de pierre à operculum trouvée à Dijon

    Cuve de pierre à operculum trouvée à Dijon
    Jean Guenebauld 

 
The New Mithraeum
23 Oct 2022
Updated on Nov 2023

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Vollgraff in Ante XVIII, 1949, 55ff discusses an inscription (CIL XIII, falsae 1047) from Dyon, which was considered as forged.

Μίθρης εν οργάδ[ι] χώμα το σώμα καλύπτει
Χννδόνακτος ίερεω[ς] αρχηγού.
δνσεβ(ίας) απέχον λύσι(ον) οίκον ὁρών.

"Ici, dans la terre sacree de Mithra, un tertre recouvre Ie corps de Chyndonax, grand-pretre. Abstiens-toi d’impiete al’aspect de sa tombe redemptrice."

Vollgraff is of the opinion, that the inscription is genuine and that Chyndonax was a priest of a



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