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Monumentum

Altar with inscription of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.
 
The New Mithraeum
30 Jan 2022
Updated on May 2026
In front of the preceding No. there stood a square marble altar with an inscription.
On the sides a patera (l)and a jug(r). CIL XIV 57; MMM II No. 132.
C. Caelius Hermaeros / antistes huius loci / fecit / sua pec(unia).

In the south-east corner [of the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale] is a square niche on a base. In the base is a hollow space in which lamps were found. A tufa base is standing against the centre of the north wall. It is an altar, or carried a niche. The front part of the base has five marble treads, on top of which is a masonry base carrying a marble altar with inscription.

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