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Monumentum

CIMRM 563

Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.
Altar to Sol Invictus Mithras by Marcus Ulpius Maximus.

Altar to Sol Invictus Mithras by Marcus Ulpius Maximus.
Csaba Szabó, January 2026.

 
The New Mithraeum
30 Jan 2026
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 1089 ↔ CIMRM 563

Ara marmorea in aedibus Maffaeiorum.

Ara posita asstante sacerdote Se[x(to)] / Creusina Se[c]undo ut voverant Ma/ximus et Maximinus fili imp(eratore) Comm/odo au (gusto) pio felice IIII et Victorino II co(n)s(ulibus).

Below it:

Soli inbicto Mitre / M. Ulp(ius) Maximus prae/positus tabellari/orum aram cum / suis ornamentis / et bela domini / insicnis habentes (sic!) / n(umero) IIII / ut voverat d(onum) d(edit).

183 A.D.

De velis domini (sc. Mithrae) insignia habentibus, cf. an inscr. from Ostia, No. 233.

CIL VI 746

Ara posita asstante sacerdote Se[x[to]] / Creusina Se[c]undo ut voverant Ma/ximus et Maximinus fili imp[eratore] Comm/odo au [gusto] pio felice IIII et Victorino II co[n]s[ulibus].

Soli inbicto Mitre / M. Ulp[ius] Maximus prae/positus tabellari/orum aram cum / suis ornamentis / et bela domini / insicnis habentes [sic!] / n[umero] IIII / ut voverat d[onum] d[edit].
The altar was set up, with the priest Sextus Creusina Secundus standing by, as Maximus and Maximinus had vowed, their sons, in the consulship of the emperor Commodus Augustus Pius Felix for the fourth time and Victorinus for the second time.

To Sol Invictus Mithras, Marcus Ulpius Maximus, praepositus of the couriers [tabellarii], set up this altar with its ornaments and the insignia and weapons of his lord, having [so it says] four units, and, as he had vowed, gave this gift.

References

CIL VI 746; MMM II No. 51.

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