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Monumentum

Altar to Sol Invictus from Puteoli

This marble dedication from Puteoli was offered to Sol Invictus and the genius of the colony by Claudius Aurelius Rufinus together with his wife and son.
 
The New Mithraeum
18 May 2026

TNMM 891 ↔ CIMRM 177

Marmore gracili et erecto.

Soli / invicto / gen(io) col(oniae) Cl(audius) Aurel(ius) / Rufinus / cum coniuge et / filio / d(onum) d(edit).

CIL X 1591

Soli / invicto / gen(io) col(oniae) Cl(audius) Aurel(ius) / Rufinus / cum coniuge et / filio / d(onum) d(edit).
To Sol Invictus and the genius of the colony, Claudius Aurelius Rufinus, together with his wife and son, gave this gift.

References

CIL X 1591; MMM II No. 202.

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