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Monumentum

Basin of Criton from Ostia

The dedicator of this marble basin could be the same person who offered the sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull in the Mitreo delle Terme di Mitra.
 
The New Mithraeum
3 Feb 2022
Updated on Jun 2026
Circular marble basin (H. 0.25 diam. 0.60) with inscription on its border.
L.H. 0.022.
[In]victo Mithrae d(onum) d(edit) M(arcus) Umbilius Criton cum Pyladen vil[ico].
Criton (ct. inscr. No. 231) probably was a libertus of M. Umbilius Maximinus (CIL XIV 177 and 251) who was a patronus of the corpus lenunculariorum tabulariorum auxiliariorum, ostiensium in 192 A.D. cf G. Barbieri, l’Albo senatorio di Settimio Severo a Carino (193-285) Roma 1952, 184f.
Becatti, 83 and PI. XVI, 2.
It may be significant that in the nearby Serapeum an inscription from 200 AD mentions a son of M…

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