Monumentum
Sepulchral inscriptions from Lycaonia
Sepulchral inscriptions from Lycaonia bearing the titles leo and aetos, previously interpreted as Mithraic grades but now understood as referring to tomb architecture.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
The sepulchral inscriptions of Lycaonia on which the titles λέων and ἀετός occur do not mention any Mithraic grades, as Rhode thought. This has been proved by Cumont, M. As. Min. 71 n. 3: “Les doutes que j’avais exprimé (MMM II 172 Nos. 549, 550 étaient justifiés. Le λέων et l’ἀετός se rapportent à la construction du tombeau lui-même, comme l’a expliqué W. Ramsay, Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 1906, 278 et confirmé L. Robert, Etudes anatoliennes, 394”.
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