We often meet
with the names of magistrates and priests of other Gods, who were
admitted into these mysteries, and who erected Taurobolia as
offerings for the safety of the Emperor, or their own. The rites of
the Taurobolia lasted sometimes many days.
The inscription, on the Taurobolium, which is on the same side with
the head of the bull, we have endeavoured to explain by filling up
the abbreviations which are met with in the Roman character.
TAUROBOLIO MATRIS DEUM MAGNAE IDAEAE
QUOD FACTUM EST EX IMPERIO
MATRIS IDAEAE DEUM
PRO SALUTE IMPERATORIS CAESARIS
TITI AELII
ADRIANI ANTONINI AUGUSTI PII PATRIS PATRIAE
LIBERORUMQUE EJUS
ET STATUS COLONIAE LUGDUNENSIS
LUCIUS AEMILIUS CARPUS SEXTUMVIR
AUGUSTALIS ITEM DENDROPHORUS
VIRES EXCEPIT ET A VATICANO
TRANSTULIT ARAM ET BUCRANIUM
SUO IMPENDIO CONSECRAVIT
SACERDOTE
QUINTO SAMMIO SECUNDO AB QUINDECEMVIRIS
OCCABO ET CORONA EXORNATO
CUI SANCTISSIMUS ORDO LUGDUNENSIS
PERPETUITATEM SACERDOTIS DECREVIT
APPIO ANNIA ATILO BRADUA TITO
CLODIO VIBIO VARO CONSULIBUS
LOCUS DATUS DICRETO DECURIONUM.
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