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Monumentum

Mithraic slab from the catacombs of Vibia

This inscription was commissioned by a family of priests of the invincible god Mithras.

The New Mithraeum

6 Sept 2023

Updated on May 2026

Excavations in the catacombs of Vibia, along the Via Appia, have confirmed that polytheists and Christians shared the same hypogeums in the 4th century. Among them, inscriptions painted in two arcosolia mention sacerdotes of Mithras belonging to the same family, a father and a son, also qualified by this title alone.
Bull. Comm. Arch. Rom. 82 1970-1971 p. 78 nr. 24 (A. Ferrua) - AE 1975. Riv. Arch. Crist. 47 1971 pp. 43-45 con foto (A. Ferrua) - AE 1975. AE 1975 54. HD006826 (F. Feraudi). Cfr. Miscellanea (Tituli 2) Roma 1980 p. 177 nr. 97a (R. Mancini)

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