Monumentum
Greek inscription of Balbillus from Rome
Greek inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Balbillus, saved from the waters, in the presence of Bassus the priest, belonging to the Mithraic grade of Leo.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1094 ↔ CIMRM 568
Kaibel, ISI, 997; MMM II No. 79.
Ἡλίῳ ἀνικήτῳ [Μίθρᾳ? δ..] / Βαλβίλλος ἡουκάτο[ς] / ἐξ ὑδάτω[ν] σωθεὶς Δ... / ΑΤΑNENKA λέοντι / ἐπὶ Βάσσου ἱερέως.
l. 2: evocatus. l. 4: the mithraic grade of Leo. ἕνεκα λέοντι? (Cumont).
CIMRM II 568
evocatus see in general Durry, 117ff. This inscription Durry, 344 n. 2.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
