Monumentum
Inscription of Valerianus Petalus
In this inscription, found in Angera in Lombardy, Mithras is referred to by the unicum 'adiutor'.
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21 Sep 2023
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CIL V 5477; MMM II No. 188. Angeriae in divi Alexandri fano.
On an inscription, now lost but copied in the 19th century when it was replaced in the church of San Alessandro d'Angera in Lombardy, the dedicator, Valerius Petalus, attributes the epithet adiutor, a unicum in Mithraic epigraphy, to Mithras.