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.
Altar of Mitreo Palazzo ImperialeJan Theo Bakker / Ostia-antica.org
The New Mithraeum
30 Jan 2022
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 461 ↔ CIMRM 259
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).
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.
CIL XIV 57
C. Caelius Hermaeros / antistes huius loci / fecit / sua pec[unia].
Caius Caelius Ermeros, antistes of this place, made, at his expense.
References
CIL XIV 57; MMM II No. 132.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
