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Monumentum

Altar with inscription from Baetulo

This altar was dedicated to Cautes by a certain Lucius in Baetulo (Badalona), near Barcino (Barcelona).
 
The New Mithraeum
29 Oct 2022
The document bears an extraordinary similarity to those of Can Modolell, and therefore seems to show a particular expression of the cult typical of Maresme, due to the abbreviation K-. The other peninsular documents developed as C(autes) have the spelling C-. The editors consider that all the documents from the area are contemporary, but the chronology from the middle of the 2nd century AD is a consequence of the conviction that the introduction of the cult of Mithras is from Mérida and that the cult there dates from the middle of the 2nd century. We can accept the contemporaneity of the documents…

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