Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla
TNMM 196 ↔ CIMRM 803
The first mention of the tombstone dates from 1794, when Caveda mentions it in a message preserved in the Real Academia de la Historia (Royal Academy of History). Caveda locates the tombstone in the portico of the Church of San Juan de la Isla, where it was until 1843 and Juan Poladura made a copy. José Isla moved it to his house, where Braulio Vigón found it. The latter gave it to the Provincial Archaeological Museum in 1880, according to Vigil (1887, p. 353).
Its appearance is rather crude and its right side is fragmented. It has lost some of the letters of the first two lines, the end of lns. 2-6 and from ln. 8 to the end. The beginning of lns. 11 and 12 is also missing. The text is badly eroded, making it difficult to read. There is no decoration and the epigraphic field occupies practically the entire front face. The focus can be seen at the top, which occupies almost the entire surface.
—Mitra en Hispania
CIMRM II 803
García y Bellido in BAC CXXII, 1948, 300ff No. 4.
CIL II 2705
References
- Rosa María Cid; Gema Elvira Adán (1998) Testimonios de un culto oriental entre los astures transmontanos. La lápida y el santuario mitraicos de San Juan de la Isla (Asturias).
