Altar from Málaga
TNMM 732 ↔ CIMRM 767
Quadratum, litteris inconditissimis cum gutturio et patera.
L. Servilius Supera/tus domino invicto / donum libens ani/mo posuit / ara[m] merenti.
Its Mithraic nature is not clear. In his catalogue (MMM, II, p. 167, no. 519), Cumont places it among the solar inscriptions, but in the preface to volume I he considers it "très probablement mithriaque", convinced by the presence of a colony of Syrian merchants in the region, to which he had devoted attention in a study dedicated to the Syrians in Córdoba (Cumont, 1924). A wandering argument justified by his conviction of the spread of the cult from the East and by his lack of knowledge of Hispania, since his comments on the peninsular documents show clichés, generalisations and inaccuracies.
CIL II 1966
References
CIL II 1966; MMM II No. 519. Gruter, 1607, 53.4; CIL II, 1966; Cumont, MMM, II, 1896, p. 167, nº 519; Cumont, MMM, I, 1899, p. 266 nota 7; GyB, 1948, nº 6, p. 302; Vermaseren, CIMRM, I, nº 767; GyB, ROER, nº 31, p. 40; Bendala, 1986, nº 16, p. 398; Francisco, 1989, ara nº 14, p. 62; Muñoz García-Vaso, 1997, p. 194; Martínez Maza - Alvar, 2007, p. 365; Beltrán Fortes, 2008, pp. 248-272; HEpOL nº 1602; EDCS 05501664; TM 221523.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
