Monumentum
Slab from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
Marble slab with a fragmentary Latin inscription, walled into the right-hand side of the cult-niche in the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte at Ostia.
The New Mithraeum
12 Jun 2026
TNMM 927 ↔ CIMRM 265
Marble slab with inscription walled in the right handside of the lower part of the cult-niche (H. 0.57 Br. 0.29).
L.H. 0.055–0.07.
[A]ugusti C. / [sacerd]ote L. U. / ... ato de sua pe(cunia).
Fragmentary white marble slab (57x29 cm) with inscription re-used to cover the altar with precious marble, 8-11 CE. Currently preserved in situ (inv. 19838). It was recently possible to integrate this fragment with other two complementary pieces found in two different spots in Ostia. The resulting completed inscription commemorates the construction of the macellum paid by Nymphodotus and by his freedman Pothus.
Main inscription
[A]ugusti C. / [sacerd]ote L. U. / ... ato de sua pe(cunia).
[…] Augustus, with L. U. serving as priest, […] paid for it from his own funds.
References
Becatti, o.c., 60.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
- Vittoria Canciani (2022) Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy.
