Monumentum
Altar of Tettius Plotus from Oescus
In the altar that Titus Tettius Plotus dedicated to the invincible God, he called himself pater sacrorum.
CIMRM 2252Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
24 Sep 2023
TNMM 634 ↔ CIMRM 2252
Guardian of the rules, the Pere is the one who celebrates the cult and directs the rites. Pater nomimus, he is also Pater sacrorum, as attested by several inscriptions from different sources.
On an altar in Ulpia Oescus, a town in Moesia Inferior, now near the village of Gigen in Bulgaria, which became a Roman colony under Trajan, a veteran of the Legio IV Flavia Felix, is described in this way. No mithraeum has yet been found at Oescus, but several reliefs of Mithra tauroctone and inscriptions discovered in the 19th century suggest that cults were well established there.
CIL III 6128
T[itus] Tettiu[s] / Plotu{u}[s] / vet[eranus] leg[ionis] II[II] / F[laviae] F[elix] p[ater] s[acrorum] d[ei] / Invicti [s[olvit]] / l[ibens] m[erito].
Titus Tettius Plotus, veteran of Legion IV Flavia Felix, father of the rites [pater sacrorum] of the invincible God, willingly and justly fulfilled his vow.
References
AE 1900, 0015; CIL 03, 06128; ILBulg 032, tab. 8, 32; CIL III 07425
- Bricault; Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain.
