Monumentum
Basin from Mitreo della Planta Pedis
This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.
Mithraic basin from OstiaFrancesco Massa 2021
The New Mithraeum
17 Mar 2022
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 531 ↔ CIMRM 275
Circular marble basin (R. 0.25 diam. 0.60) with inscription on its border.
L.H.0.022.
[In]victo Mithrae d(onum) d(edit) M(arcus) Umbilius Criton sum Pyladen vil[ico].
Criton (cf. inscr. No. 231) probably was a libertus of M. Umbilius Maximinus (CIL XIV, 177 and 251) who was a patronus of the corpus lenunculariorum tabulariorum auxiliariorum, ostiensium in 192 A.D. cf. G. Barbieri, l’Albo senatorio di Settimio Severo a Carino (193-285), Roma 1952, 184f.
Main inscription
[In]victo Mithrae d[onum] d[edit] M[arcus] Umbilius Criton sum Pyladen vil[ico].
References
Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 83 and Pl. XVI, 2.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
