Monumentum
Small marble cippus of M. Cerellio Hieronymo from the Mitreo degli Animali
Small marble cippus recording a donation by M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an antistes who dedicated objects to the god, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 932 ↔ CIMRM 282
Parvus cippus marmoreus.
CIL XIV 70; MMM II 560a.
... d(onum) d(edit) / M. Cerellio / Hieronymo patri / et sacerdoti suo / eosque antistes s(upra) s(criptus) / deo libens dicavit.
"Donationes ita factas esse ut signa donarentur sacerdoti, ab hoc deo dicarentur, ex hac inscriptione discimus" (Dessau). cf. No. 223.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae