Monumentum
Altar from the Mitreo sotto la Basilica di San Lorenzo
This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
The New Mithraeum
26 Jan 2022
Updated on 27 Jan 2022
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Cylindrical marble altar upon a square base (H. 0.725 Br. 0.40 base; diam. 0.41).
This altar which was already restored in antiquity, has an inscription in a tabula:
L.H. 0.035-0.04
Aebutius Restituti/anus qui et Proficen/tius antistes dei / Solis invicti Mithrae/ aram / d(onum) d(edit).
After the last words a palm-branch.
Nogara-Magi, 230 and PI. XII, 1; Nogara in Quaderni, PI. I, a.
This altar which was already restored in antiquity, has an inscription in a tabula:
L.H. 0.035-0.04
Aebutius Restituti/anus qui et Proficen/tius antistes dei / Solis invicti Mithrae/ aram / d(onum) d(edit).
After the last words a palm-branch.