Monumentum
Altar to a Perses of S. Silvestro in Capite
This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.
The New Mithraeum
9 Mar 2022
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 517 ↔ CIMRM 402
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.
CIMRM II 402
Vollgraff in Homm. Déonna, 517; B. Gabrićević, Ostendere cryphios in Zbornik radova Filozofskog Jakulteta u Zagrebu II 1954, 49–56.
CIL VI 751a
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].
Under the consulship of [Censorius] Datianus and [Neratius] Cerealis, Nonius Victor Olympius, clarissimo, Father of the Fathers, and Aurelius Victor Augentius, clarissimo, Father, transmitted the attributes of the Persian on the eve of the nones of April, with success. Under the aforementioned consuls, they transmitted the attributes of the Sun, on the sixteenth day before the calendas of May, with success.
References
CIL VI 750; MMM II No.8.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
