Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena

TNMM 652 ↔ CIMRM 660

Base, 'trovata nelle vigne al di là del Paglia'.

Soli invicto / Mitrhae(sic!) / Tiberius Claudi/us Tiberi filius / Thermodon / spelaeum cum / signis et ara / ceterisque / voti compos / dedit.

Of a Tiberius Claudius Thermodon we know dedications to Diana (CIL XI 2683) and to the Fortuna Primigenia (CIL XIV 2853).

The inscription from the Bolsena, region of Lazio, is engraved on a marble altar found in the 14th century in a vineyard near the river Paglia and kept in the church of Santa Maria Vecchia in Ficulle. The site was on the Via Cassia, in an agricultural area near Sutri, where a mithraeum [TNMM 21] was excavated in 1850 (no. 140b). The dedicator, Tiberius Claudius Thermodon, was also the author of a dedication to Diana at Ficulle (Ficulea), in the territory of Volsinii (CIL XI 2683), and a third to Fortuna Primigenia, deposited at Praeneste (CIL XIV 2853). His cognomen, derived from the name of an Anatolian river, suggests a Micrasian origin for this man, who may have been a local merchant.