Monumentum
Inscription by Velox of Aquileia
Marble slab with inscription by Velox for the salvation of the chief of the iron mines of Noricum.
Inscription by Velox of Aquileia.Krešimir Matijević
The New Mithraeum
11 Sep 2023
Updated on Jul 2024
TNMM 603 ↔ CIMRM 747
The vilicus Velox inscription, engraved on a marble slab, was first reported in 1720, when it was housed in the Casa Bertoli in Aquileia. No mithraeum has yet been discovered at the site, but the large number of Mithraic monuments and inscriptions found at various points in and around the city, particularly near the port, suggests that more than one mithraeum was operating there.
CIL V 810
Pro salute / Tiberi Claudi / Macronis con[ductoris] / fer[rariarum] Nor[icarum] Velox ser[vus] / vil[icus] spel[a]eum cum / omni apparatu fecit.
For the salvation of Tiberius Claudius Macro, head of the iron mines of Noricum, Velox, a slave steward, made the spelaeum with all his equipment.
References
CIL V 810; TMMM2 (Inscr. 175); CIMRM 747; Brusin 1991 (pp. 152-3); Lettich 2003 (pp. 22-3); Hirt 2010 (p. 284); Zaccaria 2017 (p. 192); EDR116886 (F. Mainardis).
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
