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Monumentum

Altar of Sextus Syntrophus

This altar to Invictus Mythra (sic) was found in 1867 in ancient Maros Portum, now Sighișoara, Romania.

Altar of Sextus SyntrophusEDCS

The New Mithraeum

10 Jul 2024

Updated on May 2026

Ara rep. ad Maros Portum anno 1867. Now in the Grammar School at Sighisoara = Segesvár = Schässburg.

Invict[o] / Mythra[e] / Sex(tus) Syntr/ofus v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens).

Invict[o] / Mythra[e] / Sex[tus] Syntr/ofus v[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens].

Invictus Mithras, Sextus Syntrophus willingly fulfilled his vow.

CIL III 7777; MMM II No. 252

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