Dedication to Zeus-Helios, Mithras, and Phanes

TNMM 792 ↔ CIMRM 475

On the remnants of a bracket, decorated with leaves of acanthus (H. 0.21 Br. 0.51 D. 0.13). Mus. Capitolino.

Remains of a console decorated with acanthus leaves, length 51 cm, height 21 cm, recently discovered in Rome on Via Marmorata, the road that runs between the Tiber and the steep slope of the Aventine Hill. It was published and commented on by Mr. Goffredo Patriarca in the article Tre iscrizioni relative al culto di Mitra, in the Bull. della Comm. Arch. comunale, LX, 1932, pp. 3 and following. The author notes that the location of the find was near the Emporium, a vast warehouse where foreign merchants had their counters and which was populated by Asian slaves.

This text is currently preserved in the Capitoline Museum. It provides us, for the first time, with certain proof of the introduction of Orphic doctrines into the mysteries of the Persian god.