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Colonia Agrippina

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, usually just called Colonia, was the Roman settlement in the Rhineland that became the modern city of Cologne, now in Germany. It was the capital of Germania Inferior and the military headquarters of the region.

Mithraic monuments of Colonia Agrippina

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People attested in Colonia Agrippina

Exsochuos

Exsochuos
Cimber

Cimber
Pietas

Pietas
Tiberius Claudius Romanius

Tiberius Claudius Romanius
(201 – 300)

Inscriptions from Colonia Agrippina

Inscription to Mithras by Claudius Romanius from Köln

D[eo] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] S[oli] s[ocio] / Tiberius Cl[audius] / Romaniu[s] / veteranu[s] / l[ibens] m[erito].
To the invincible sun god Mithras, ally of sol, Tiberius Claudius Romanius, veteran, willingly and deservedly.

Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne

Have / Cimber es[sedarius] et / Pietas Ensocho / essed[ario] sodali / [b]ene merenti / [pos]uit. Vale.

{H}Ave / Cimber es[sedarius] et / Pietas Exsocho / essed[ario] sodali / [be]ne merenti / [pos]uit[!] val[e] // Cor[a]x.

Cor[a]x // Have / Cimber es[sedarius] et / Pietas Exsocho[!] / essed[ario] sodali / [be]ne merent[i] / [pos]uit[!] val[e].
Hail. Cimber, the charioteer, and Pietas have erected [this monument] for Exsocho, a fellow charioteer, deserving of honor. Farewell.

Altar to Semele from Cologne

Deae Semelae et / sororibus eiius[!] / deabus ob honorem / sacri matratus / Reginia Paterna / mater nata et / facta aram po/suit / sub sacerdotal[i] / Seranio Catullo / patre.
To the goddess Semele and her sister goddesses, for the honor of the sacred office of matron, Reginia Paterna, both born a mother and made, placed this altar under the priesthood of Seranius Catullus, Pater.
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