Sculptural and Epigraphic Evidence.
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- Limestone relief (H 0.98. Br 0.55m) depicting Mithras' rockbirth. Mithras, naked and emerging from the rock to mid-thigh, holds a burning torch in his upraised left hand and a dagger in his right. The rock is encircled by a serpant who raises its head towards the god.
- DEO CAUTI / M ANT(onius) VIC/TORINUS / DEC(urio) COL(oniae) / AQ(uninci) AEDILIS.
To Cautes (see Cautes and Cautopates). Marcus Antonius Victorinus, Decurion of the colony of Aquincum. Aedile.
- As above though to DEO CAU/TOPATI / To Cautopates... (See Cautes and Cautopates).
- FONTI / PERENNI / M ANT(onius) / VICTORI/NUS DEC(urio) / COL(oniae) AQ(uinci) / AED(ilis).
To the lasting spring. Marcus Antonius Victorinus, Decurion of the colony of Aquincum. Aedile.
- {....DE]C(urio) / COL(oniae) AQ(uinici) AED(ilis).
- A fragment of the tauroctony (the main cult image) was found in the excavations and would have stood on the large stone base at the end (south) wall of the temple cella.
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