CIMRM 27bis - Inscribed altar. Anazarbus, Cilica.


From Gough, 1952.

From Gough.

During the summer of 1950 a small limestone altar was found at the south-west end of the stadium at the site of Anabarzos in Cilicia. On one side was an inscription in Greek. The first 5 lines had been erased with a chisel, while the remaining 5 lines were badly weathered. The inscription was by a certain M. Aurelius Seleucus, priest of Mithra. The opening section seems to have been dedicated to an emperor who since suffered damnatio memoriae. The lettering is perhaps 3rd c. A.D.1

From Michael Gough, Anazarbus, Anatolian Studies, Vol. 2 (1952), pp. 85-150.

From "Handbuch Der Orientalistik: Nahe und der Mittlere Osten, Volume 3; Volume 53", edited by John O. Hunwick etc., p.306:

From Roger Beck, "Mithraism since Franz Cumont", ANRW 2, p.2019:

CIMRM entry

External links

  • M. Gough, "A new Mithraic inscription from Anabarzos", Proceedings of the Twenty-second Congress of Orientalists, Brill, 1957, p.99: "...at the end of the fifth line. ... These letters almost certainly represent the end of a Roman imperial title ... The lettering of the inscription (admittedly not a very reliable criterion of date) appears, on comparison with other inscriptions from Anabarzos, to belong to the 3rd century A.D."
  • Mary Boyce, A history of Zoroastrianism, vol. 3, 1975. In: Handbuch der Orientalistik: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten, Part 1, p.306, translating as "priest and pater for life of the Sun-god, the uncontested Mithras". Vermaseren in Mithras the Secret God translates here as "Zeus-Helios-Mithra".


1M. Gough, "A new Mithraic inscription from Anabarzos", Proceedings of the Twenty-second Congress of Orientalists, Brill, 1957, p.99.

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