Monumentum
Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano
This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.
The New Mithraeum
11 Feb 2022
Updated on Feb 2026
TNMM 511 ↔ CIMRM 362
Ara reperta in Esquiliis ad aedem DD. Petri et Marcellini.
Soli / invicto Mithrae / T. Flavius Aug(usti) lib(ertus) Hyginus / Ephebianus / d(onum) d(edit).
Ἡλίῳ Μίθραι / Τ(ίτος) Φλάουιος Ὑγεῖος / διὰ Λολλίου Ρούφου / πατρὸς ἰδίου.
For the double cognomen, that should date from the time before Hadrian, see: Hülsen in Bull. Ist.1888, 232; RM III, 222ff and our No. 496.
ἰδίου added in order to preclude confusion with the grade of pater.
CIL VI 732
Soli / invicto Mithrae / T. Flavius Aug[usti] lib[ertus] Hyginus / Ephebianus / d[onum] d[edit].
Ἡλίῳ Μίθραι / Τ[ίτος] Φλάουιος Ὑγεῖος / διὰ Λολλίου Ρούφου / πατρὸς ἰδίου.
Ἡλίῳ Μίθραι / Τ[ίτος] Φλάουιος Ὑγεῖος / διὰ Λολλίου Ρούφου / πατρὸς ἰδίου.
To Sol invincible Mithras, Titus Flavius Hyginus Ephebianus, freedman of the emperor, offered as a gift.
To Sol Mithras, Titus Flavius Hyginus, through Lollius Rufus, his pater.
To Sol Mithras, Titus Flavius Hyginus, through Lollius Rufus, his pater.
References
CIL VI 732; MMM II No. 66. Kaibel, ISI, 996.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
