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Monumentum

Floor mosaic of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

It bears an inscription repeated on each side of the podia.

Floor mosaic from Palazzo Imperiale Mithraeum
Ostia-antica.org / Jan Theo Bakker

The New Mithraeum

3 Feb 2022

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Two identical inscriptions on the floor ofthe Mithraeum.

Soli invict(o) Mit(hrae) d(onum) d(edit) L. Agrius Calendio.

CIL XIV 56; MMM II No. 131.

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A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.

This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.

This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.

Marble statuette of Cautopates, according to Giornale d’Italia 28, 3, 1860 found together with the preceding Nos.