Inscription of two lions from Angera

The New Mithraeum

13 Nov 2022

TNMM 567 ↔ CIMRM 718

Altar, found at Angera in the garden of Dott. Castiglioni, 'vicino alIa chiesa prepositurale, infisso nel muro di un portico rustico' in 1868.

Cautopati sac[r(um)] / M(arcus) Status Nig[er] / VI vir aug(ustalis) c(reatus) d(ecreto) d(ecurionum) [M(ediolanensium)] / leg(atus?) dend(rophorum) c(oloniae) A(ureliae?) A(ugustae?) M(ediolanii) / et C(aius) Valerius lulia[nus?] / leones leg(ati?) v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).

Marble base (marmo di Candoglia, h. 36 cm) with inscription found in 1868 in Angera (garden of house Castiglione), late 2nd century CE. Currently preserved in Milan, Civico Museo Archeologico (inv. A 0.9.11063).

CIL V 5465

Cautopati sac[r[um]] / M[arcus] Status Nig[er] / VI vir aug[ustalis] c[reatus] d[ecreto] d[ecurionum] [M[ediolanensium]] / leg[atus?] dend[rophorum] c[oloniae] A[ureliae?] A[ugustae?] M[ediolanii] / et C[aius] Valerius lulia[nus?] / leones leg[ati?] v[otum] s[olverunt] l[ibentes] m[erito].

Consecrated to Cautopates. Marcus Statius Niger, sevir Augustalis appointed by a decree of the town council and representative of the dendrophoroi of the colonia Aurelia Augusta Mediolanensium, and Caius Valerius Iulianus, both leones and representatives, fulfilled their vow willingly and deservedly.

References

CIL V 5465; MMM II No. 187. Biondelli 1868 (pp. 523-7); CIL V 5465; TMMM2 (Inscr. 187); ILS 4259; Calderini 1946 (pp. 70-1); CIMRM 718; Sartori 1995 (p. 40); Sartori 2009 (pp. 364-5); Zoia 2017 (p. 136). Sartori and Zoia 2020 (p. 260); EDR124511 (S. Zoia, A. Sartori).

Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
Vittoria Canciani (2022) Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy.