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Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.
Inscription from Cologne

Inscription from Cologne
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The New Mithraeum
7 Nov 2023

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Fremersdorf in the same publication (Germania 1929, 134 No. 11) gives a copy a sepulchral inscription in limestone (H. 0.575 Br. 0.32 D. 0.08) which was found in the immediate neighbourhood of the Mithraeum.

Have / Cimber es(sedarius) et / Pietas Ensocho / essed(ario) sodali / [b]ene merenti / [pos]uit. Vale.

On the left above the word Have the copy gives COR but Fremersdorf reads COR[A]X, the first of the seven degrees in the Mithras-mysteries (cf. H. Finke in BRGK XVII, 1927 No. 366).



[...] plaque commemorative dressée par deux gladiateurs à un de leurs compagnons :

Cimber
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