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Monumentum

Altar of Flavius Verecundus from Carnuntum

This monument to Mithras and Cautes (or Cautopates) was erected in Carnuntum by the centurion Flavius Verecundus of Savaria.
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The New Mithraeum
3 Nov 2023
Updated on Nov 2023
CIL III 4416; MMM II No. 371; Kubitschek, Bilderatlas, No. 23; JOAI 29, 1935 (Beibl.) 302 No. 142; Vorbeck, 27 No. 45.

L.H. 0.05.

D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) C(aute) /T. Flavius / Verecundus / c(o)l(onia) Savaria / [centurio] leg(ionis) XIIII / g(eminae) M(artiae) v(ictricis) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).



Discovered in Carnuntum, Austria, in 1853, this altar dates from the second half of the 2nd century and is dedicated to Mithras and one of his companions, either Cautes or Cautopates. The altar, which is badly damaged at the top, has a rectangular niche on each…

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