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.
Csaba Szabó, January 2026.
The New Mithraeum
30 Jan 2026
Ara marmorea in aedibus Maffaeiorum. CIL VI 746; MMM II No. 51. 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.
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