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Monumentum

Funerary stele of Aurelius Lucanus from Amasya

Marble funerary stele dedicated to the soldier Aurelius Lucanus, a devotee of Mithras, found at Amasya (ancient Amasia), Pontus.

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Marble stele (H. 0.88 Br. 0.50), found at Amasia. Cumont, Studia Pontica III, 132 No. 108.Above an inscription a tympanum in which a small wheel. L.H. 0.04.T(τ)ῳ Αὐρηλίῳ Λουκανῷ / στρατιώτῃ εὐσεβεῖ / Τρύφενα ἡ μήτηρ μνήμης χάριν.With the aid of the title εὐσεβής Cumont makes it acceptable that by στρατιώτης not an ordinary soldier was meant, but a soldier in the Mithras-cult (cf. miles pius in CIL XIII 7570d).

CIMRM II 15
miles pius cf. No. 1232. M. P. Nilsson, Gr. Rel. II, 644 n. 2 doubts the Mithraic character of this inscription.

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