Monumentum
Altar of Vieu
This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.
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29 Jan 2022
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Dei i(nvicti) M(ithrae) / patri patru/m G. Ru[f(io)] / Eutacto / C. R(ufius) Viri/lis fil(ius).
The same C. Rufius and his wife are mentioned in a sepulchral inscription.
CIL XIII 2540; MMM No. 494.
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Six lines of a complete inscription, punctuated with seven ivy leaves (hederae), are carefully engraved on an altar from which only the front survives:
Dei i(nvicti) / M(ithrae) Patri Patru/m C(aio) Ru[t(io9] / Eutacto / C(aius) R(ufius) Viri/lis fil(ius).
The same C. Rufius and his wife are mentioned in a sepulchral inscription.
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Six lines of a complete inscription, punctuated with seven ivy leaves (hederae), are carefully engraved on an altar from which only the front survives:
Dei i(nvicti) / M(ithrae) Patri Patru/m C(aio) Ru[t(io9] / Eutacto / C(aius) R(ufius) Viri/lis fil(ius).
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Data
- Location
Mithraeum de Valromey, Vieu, Lugdunensis (Gallia) Vieux-en-Val-Romey, Valromey (France) - Current location
Musée d'Archéologie nationale - Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye [83460] Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France) - Type
- Dimensions H. 75.5 W. 30.2 D. 13 cm
- Dating early 3rd century
- Discovery date 1869
- Material Stone Limestone
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/456
- CIMRM 911
- CIL XIII 2540
Related
- Mithraeum Mithraeum de Valromey
- Monumentum Mithraeum de Valromey