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Inscription of Hermes to Silvanus

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.
 
The New Mithraeum
22 Sep 2023
Updated on Oct 2023

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Marble slab in different fragments (H. 0.25 Br. 0.46).

L.R. 0.025-0.04.

Silvano / sancto / sacrum / Hermes / M. Iuli Eunici.

Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 84.



An incomplete marble slab was found in Ostia in 1939 and replaced in one of the tiers of the masonry altar in the mithraeum of planta pedis. It bears an inscription, presumably complete, to Silvanus sanctus.

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