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Monumentum

Inscribed base from S. Silvestro in Capite

This monument records the transmission of the patrica and the presentation of the cryfii, ritual acts associated with Mithraic initiation.
 
The New Mithraeum
9 Mar 2022
Updated on Aug 2026
Lost altar dated from 4th and 16 April 358, found in the 15th century in the Mitreo S. Silvestro in Capite.
Datiano et Cereale cons(ulibus) / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) cl(arissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) [et] / Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) / tradiderunt Persica pri(die) non(as) april(es) / fel(iciter). / Consulibus s(upra) sc(riptis) tradiderunt [h]eliaca / XVI kal(endas) ma/i(as) / felic(iter).
358 A.D.CIL VI 750; MMM II No.8.
CIMRM II 402
Vollgraff in Homm. Déonna, 517; B. Gabrićević, Ostendere cryphios in Zbornik radova Filozofskog Jakulteta u Zagrebu II 1954, 49–56.183c…

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