Monumentum
Altar to Semele from Cologne
This sandstone altar found in Cologne bears an inscription to the goddess Semele and her sisters.
Altar to Semele from Cologne
Kresimir Matijevic
Altar to Semele, right side.
Kresimir Matijevic
Altar to Semele, right side.
Kresimir Matijevic
The New Mithraeum
7 Nov 2023
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The l. side of the altar is decorated with a tympanum against a pedum under which a large altar. On the r. side an altar with a thyrsus and erotala. The front bears an inscription:
Deae Semelae et / sororibus eiuis (sic!) / deabus ob honorem / sacri matratus / Reginia fraterna / mater nata et facta aram po/suit sub sacerdota[e] Seranio Catullo patre.
patre: certainly the father of a Mithras community which had relations with a cult for women with a mater.