Monumentum
Golden magical ring from the Castellani Collection
Gold ring amulet formerly in the Schlumberger Collection, published as Mithraic by Cumont and later identified as a healing charm against colic and diseases of the uterus.
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026
TNMM 2574 ↔ CIMRM 2357
The golden ring in the Coll. G. Schlumberger in REG. V 1892, 85ff and fig. (Coll. Alessandro Castellani, Roma 1884, 119 No. 920; G. Schlumberger in REG 1892, 85ff with fig. and in Mél. d’archéologie byzantine (S. 1) 1895, 136f), considered as Mithraic by Cumont (MMM II 452 No. 14 and fig. 106) is an amulet against colic and diseases of the uterus. Drexler in Philologus LVIII, 1899, 608ff; cf. Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis, Cap. 28 (23) reads: μίτρα (= μήτρα) ἔπαcγε · θεὸς κελεύω or κελεύει μὴ [κ]ύειν πόνους κόλον.
Main inscription
μίτρα ἔπασγε· θεὸς κελεύει μὴ κύειν πόνους κόλον.
Womb, cease suffering; the god commands that you bear no pains of the colon.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
