Cippus of Antoninus from Ostia — The New Mithraeum

The New Mithraeum

8 Nov 2023

Updated on Jun 2026

TNMM 740 ↔ CIMRM 270 & 317

Small marble cippus.

A. Aemi/lius An / ...…ius.

CIMRM 317

Small white marble cippus (H. 0.115 Br. 0.185 D. 0.197). The exact find-spot is unknown. About 200 A.D. Ostia, Magazines.

L.H. 0.016-0.014.

[An]tonin[us] / pater / Cauti.

Main inscription

A[ulus] Aemi/lius An/toninu[s] / pater / Cauti.

[An]tonin[us] / pater / Cauti.

Pater Aulus Aemilius Antoninus to Cautes.

Pater Antoninus to Cautes.

References

Becatti, 67. Becatti, 130 No. 6.

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

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