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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

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.

Related monuments

Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

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.

Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale

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

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.

Mosaic of Silvanus from Ostia

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