Inscription of Hermes to Silvanus

The New Mithraeum

22 Sep 2023

Updated on Jun 2026

TNMM 626 ↔ CIMRM 276

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

L.R. 0.025-0.04.

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

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.

Main inscription

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

Dedicated to the sacred Silvanus, Hermes, [slave] of Marcus Iulius Eunicus.

References

Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 84.

Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae

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