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Marble slab with inscription from Mitreo Barberini

The inscription mentions the name of the donor, Yperanthes, of Persian origin.
Inscription slab of Barberini Mithraeum
Inscription slab of Barberini MithraeumPascal Lemaire
 
The New Mithraeum
31 Jan 2022
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 466 ↔ CIMRM 391

Square marble slab (0.30), walled in the right projecting elevation before the cult-niche.

Yperanthes / basem inbicto / donum / dedit.

The name of Yperanthes seems to be of Persian origin (cf. CIG XII p. 480). The inscription stands in a red frame, in which traces of red and blue colours.

Main inscription

Yperanthes / basem inbicto / donum / dedit [ab Mitra].
Yperanthes offered the plinth as a present to the invincible god Mithras.

References

Related monuments

Mitreo Barberini

The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.

Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

Submission scene from Barberini

This scene of the main fresco of the Mithraeum Barberini seems to depict part of the initiation into the Mithraic Mysteries.

 
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