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Monumentum

Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.
Altar of Gimmeldingen

Altar of Gimmeldingen
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA) 

 
 
The New Mithraeum
27 Jan 2022
Updated on Oct 2023
 

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Altar in sandstone (H. 1.05 Br. 0.65-0.57 D. 0.315). In the upper border a rosette.

L.H. 0.04-0.05.

In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / Deo / invihto (sic!) / Materninius / Fautinus car[a]x / in suo posuit /l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

Fautinus instead of Faustinus.
Carx instead of Corax.

Sprater, 3 and fig. 6; Finke in BRGK XVII, 1927,54 No. 164.On the main face of a large altar carved from a single block, on a tympanum crudely decorated with acanthus leaves, there runs a very poorly executed inscription of seven lines:

In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / deo / invihto (sic) /

In…

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