The material documented in Moesia superior illustrates the importance of the province within the Danubian military zone of the Roman empire. Mithraic cults circulated through legionary communities, urban centres and strategic routes linking the Balkans to the wider frontier world.
Mithraic monuments of Moesia superior
Altar of Klechovtse
The limestone altar at Klechovtse in North Macedonia bears an inscription to the invincible Mithras.
CIMRM 2209
Inscription of Ision from Guberevac
In this monument, the imperial slave Ision claims the completion of a new temple to Mithras in Moesia.
CIMRM 2235
Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac
This weathered marble fragment from Viminacium preserves part of a tauroctony with Luna, Cautopates, the serpent, and the dog.
Brothers active in Moesia superior
Places in Moesia superior
Viminacium
Viminacium was a major city, military camp, and the capital of the Roman province of Moesia.
Inscriptions from Moesia superior
Altar of Klechovtse
[D[eo] i[nvicto]] M[ithrae] / fano mag[no] / pro sal[ute] Aug[g[ustorum]] n[ostrorum] / Apollonides / eorund[em] vect[igalis] Il/lyr[ici] ser[vus] [contra]sc[riptor] st[ationis] / Lamud[---] quam vove/rat [contra]sc[riptor] sta[tionis] Vizi[ani] // A[pollo]n[ides]s Viz[iani] // Gentia/no et / Basso [co[n]s[ulibus]].
To the invincible god Mithras, a great temple, for the safety of our Agustus Apollonides, the servant of Illyricum, the contrascriptor of the garrison of those tributaries, Lamud--- which he had vowed, the contrary of the station of Viziani.
Inscription of Ision from Guberevac
Invicto deo / Ision Caes[aris] n[ostri] ser[vus] / vil[icus] vectigal[is] Il/lyr[ici] templ[um] omn[i] / re instruct[um] a / solo p[ecunia] s[ua] f[aciendum] c[uravit].
To the invincible god, Ision, a slave of our emperor and steward of the taxes of Illyricum, saw to it that the temple, complete with all its furnishings, was built from the ground up at his own expense.
References
- Lupa.at (2021) Altar für Mithras
