Monumentum
Altar dedicated by Pater Patrum Augentius
This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.
The New Mithraeum
27 Jan 2022
TNMM 445 ↔ CIMRM 403
D(ominis) n(ostris) Valente V et Valentiniano / iuniore primum aug(ustis) VI idus april(es) / tradidit hierocoracica Aur(elius) Victor / Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) filio suo Emiliano / Corfini(o) Olympio c(larissimo) p(uero) anna tricensimo / acceptionis suae felic(iter).
376 A.D.
It is remarkable that at the end of the fourth century children could be admitted in the mysteries also.
CIL VI 751b
Dd[ominis] nn[ostris] Valente V et Valentiniano / iuniore primum Augg[ustis] VI idus april[es] / tradidit hierocoracica Aur[elius] Victor / Augentius v[ir] c[larissimus] p[ater] p[atrum] filio suo Emiliano / Corfoni Olympio c[larissimo] p[uero] anno tricensimo / acceptionis suae felic[iter].
Under [the Consulate] of our lords the Augustinians Valens, for the fifth time, and Valentinian the Younger, for the first time, on the sixth day before the ides of April, Aurelius Victor Augentius, clarissimo, Father of the Fathers, passed to his son Emilianus Corfo Olympius, clarissimo child, the attributes of the Sacred Raven, in the thirtieth year of his own admission, with happiness.
References
CIL VI 751b; MMM II No. 10.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
