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Caesarea

Caesarea, also known historically as Mazaca, was an ancient city in what is now Kayseri, Turkey.

Brothers active in Caesarea

Callimorphus

Callimorphus

Mithraic monuments of Caesarea

 

Column of Callimorphus

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun ’Mythra’.

CIMRM 17

 

CIMRM 155

Inscription on an altar found at Cherchel.

CIMRM 155

 

CIMRM 156

Inscription on a white marble plate.

CIMRM 156

 

CIMRM 157

Walled up in a wall of the mosque Sidi Abd-el-Kader at Affreville.

CIMRM 157

 

CIMRM 158

Left part of a bas-relief (H. 1.22 Br. 1.00), found in 1882 at Tirnziouin near Saida.

CIMRM 158

Inscriptions from Caesarea

Column of Callimorphus

Solem / Soli invicto / Mythrae / pro salute et incolu/mitate / Chresimi Aug[ustorum] / n[ostrorum] dispensatoris / Callimorphus arkar/ius eiusdem / votum solvit / libens animo.
To the Sun, the Unconquered Sun Mithras. For the health and safety of Chresimus, dispenser of our Emperors, Callimorphus, his treasurer, gladly and willingly fulfilled his vow.

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