Monumentum
Colonne with inscription by workers of the pig market
The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.
Colomn from forum suarium.
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The New Mithraeum
20 Sep 2023
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S[oli] i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et sodalicio eius / actores de foro suario / quorum nomina / [sequuntur]…
CIL VI 3728; 31046; MMM II No. 58.
An inscription engraved on a marble column found in the 19th century outside a Mithraic context in Rome, in the forum suarium, between the Esquiline and the Suburre, gives the brotherhood the name sodalicium (TNMM 479, also in Rome). It clearly brought together a number of workers in the pork market, whose masters we do not kno…