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Locus

Pons Saravi

Sarrebourg is a commune of northeastern France. In 1895 a Mithraeum was discovered at Sarrebourg at the mouth of the pass leading from the Vosges Mountains.

Mithraic monuments of Pons Saravi

 

Mithréum de Sarrebourg

This rock-cut Mithraeum occupies the north-eastern slope of the Grand-Rebberg at Saarburg, featuring a stepped entrance, a sloping central aisle, lateral benches, and a spring-fed water conduit.

CIMRM 965

 

Tauroctony from Sarrebourg

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

CIMRM 966

 

Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.

CIMRM 968

 

CIMRM 978

Fragment of a trachyte brazier.

CIMRM 978

 

CIMRM 982

Two altars dedicated to Sucellus and Nantosvelta found near the Sarrebourg Mithraeum.

CIMRM 982

Brothers attested in Pons Saravi

Inscriptions from Pons Saravi

Tauroctony from Sarrebourg

In h[onorem] d[omus] d[ivinae] deo inv[ict]o Marceleus Marianus / d[e] / s[uo] p[osuit]
In honour of the divine house, Marceleus Marianus set [this] up to the god Invictus at his own expense.

Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg

ar / ... marli ... Marc/ellius Maria[nu]s de / suo posuit.
[— ar / … marli …] Marcellius Marianus set [this] up at his own expense.

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