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Monumentum

Inscription of Iulius Pyrrus

This inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras Serapis by a certain Ioulios Pyrros is now lost.
 
The New Mithraeum
23 Sep 2023

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This text, now lost, is known from the transcription by Cyriacus of Ancona in the 15th century, who saw it in Heraclea in Pontus. The dedication of Iulius Pyrrus, in Greek, was engraved on a colossal base one metre twenty high.