Fitz Jenő (szerk.): Religions and Cults in Pannonia. Exhibiton an Székesfehérvár, Csók István Gallery 15 May - 30 September 1996 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: A. sorozat 33. (1998)

191. Painted sanctuary wall of a Mithraeum The row of scenes on the left side is damaged, several pictures, together with a limestone cult picture, were annihilated in the course of the building of a recent cellar. The row of scenes starts in the left upper corner and proceeds on the left downwards. Our scene was likely preceded by another one. Field 2: Saturnus-Oceanus (ancient sea god before the creation of the world). The male figure reclining on the fragment can be completed on ground of the yellow, slanting folds of the garment. Field 3: Mithras petrogenitus (rock-born Mithras) The nude god emerges from the rock to the waist, with a dagger and a torch in his hands. Field 4: Mithras frugifer (fruit-providing Mithras) The young Mithras is clad in a sleeveless green tunic and a Phrygian cap, stretching out his arm towards the green leaves. A scene or two are missing, the legend starts in the right side picture row from below continuing upwards. Field 7: agon. (Fight of Mithras with the bull). Mithras rides the bull which takes him away to the Underworld. Field 8: adoratio (devotion) On the stylized mound representing the World Sol bends his knee before Mithras. Field 9: investitura (initiation). Mithras raises a Phrygian cap above the head of the kneeling Sol. Field 10: dexiosis (hand-clasp) Sol and Mithras solemnize their connection by clasping hands over a burning sacrificial altar. Field 11: mysterium (mystical rebirth). The assistants of Mithras, Cautes and Cautopates, raise the stripped off skin of the bull over the head of the kneeling, naked Sol. Field 12: ascensio (ascension). The victorious Mithras (his figure is fragmentary, only his right foot remained) ascends to Heaven on the Sun chariot. Field 13: kosmos neos (the renewed World). Symbolic representation of the world order reestablished after the victory of Mithras. Deities sitting at a festive banquet. (Fragmentary). The composition is asymmetrical, at the bottom of the West picture row we find a bare white field. This asymmetry can be explained by the altar with snakes standing before the West podium. The wall was painted only after setting in the stones, so there could be no scene behind the altar and this dates the wall painting too: the wall of the sanctuary is contemporaneous with the altar set by Pius Marcellinus. - 165x146 cm. - Budapest (Aquincum), legionary camp at the Flórián tér, house of the tribunus laticlavius. -AM, Inv. no. 113. MADARASSY 1991a, 123-136.; MADARASSY 1991b, 1991,207-211. O.M. 192. Cult picture of Mithras tauroktonos (reconstruction) The Tauroktonos-relief belonging to the sanctuary was annihilated when in recent times a cellar was dug in. A secondary use, bulding-in of the stone is conceivable. Among the sporadic Mithras-reliefs found in Óbuda till now only one fragment can be completed to the measures required; we used this as working hypothesis for our reconstruction sketch. - 54x40 cm. (Completed: 92x85 cm.) - Budapest (Aquincum), Majláth u. 51. - AM, Inv. no. 64.11.78.; Copy. H: 115 cm. SZILÁGYI 1943, 344, Fig. 13. O.M. 193. Foundation stone of the Mithraeum Altar, limestone, prism-shaped. The upper part of the stone and the inscription field are broken, the first row of the inscription remained is considerably damaged. The inscription field is in a moulded frame, the rows were lined beforehand. Inscription: Cass[ius ]ns trib(unus) lati(clavius) leg(ionis) II \ Ad(iutricis) p(iae) f(idelis) Acmazo \ locum deo co(n)s(stituit). v.s.l.m. - A.D. 175. - 50x64x29,5 cm. - AM, Inv. no. M 114 (copy of 81.7.17.) KOCSIS 1989, 81-84. no. 1. - FITZ 1989, 94. - FITZ 1993-95, II, 672, nr 375. M.Né. 104