Inscriptions of Caseggiato di Diana
TNMM 488 ↔ CIMRM 223
Marble slab (H. 0.25 Br. 0.29), found at a small distance of the Casa di Diana in a taberna along the Decumanus.
The slab has the following inscriptions:
CIL XIV 4312
a) [M. Lollia]no Callinico / [patre Pe]tronius Felix / [Marsus sign]um deo / [donum] ded(it) / . . . atus xinu . . . / fecit.
CIL XIV 4313
b) M. M. Caer[ellius Hiero]/nimus et [Callinic]/us sacerdo/tes Solis / thronum / fec(erunt).
These three inscriptions very probably belong to the sanctuary in the Casa di Diana (we prefer to call it 'Mitreo di CaIlinico') from which the slab was removed, when the Mithraeum was not used anymore.
M. Caerellius Hieronimus: cf. CIL XIV 4569 (dating from 198 A.D.) from which appears that he belonged to the collegium labrum tignuariorum. His name also in CIL XIV 70 = No. 282.
CIL XIV 4312
M. M. Caer[ellius Hiero]/nimus et C[allinic]/us sacerdo[tes et antisti]/es Solis [invic[ti] Mithrae] / thronum / fec[erunt].
Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus and Marcus Caerellius Callinicus, priests and antistes of Sol invincible Mithras, made the throne.
References
Calza in NSc 1914, 332 n. 1; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 13.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
