This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Enter
Monumentum

Base of Cerellio Hieronymo from Ostia

Small marble base recording a donation to M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an antistes who dedicated objects to the god, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.
Base of Cerellio Hieronymo from Ostia.
Base of Cerellio Hieronymo from Ostia.DR
 
The New Mithraeum
12 Jun 2026
Updated on Jun 2026
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.Petite base de marbre (22,4 × 30 × 20,3 cm ; haut. lett. 1,3-1,7 cm), trouvée lors des fouilles de 1867-1868, dans les ruines alors identifiées à la schola des dendrophores, à l’arrière du temple de Mater Magna (Visconti 1868, 374-375).

The full article is reserved for our members.

Log in or create a free account to access the entire site.

Related monuments

Mitreo degli Animali

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

Mosaics from Mitreo degli Animali

Several figures related to the Mysteries of Mithras are depicted on the mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Animals.

Marble cap from the Mitreo degli Animali

Marble cap mentioned by Visconti, subsequently identified as certainly belonging to the finds of the Mitreo degli Animali rather than the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale, Ostia.

 

Marble head of Helios-Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali

Marble head of Helios-Mithras with curly hair and seven holes for fastening rays, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, Lateran Museum.

Marble base of Atilius Bassus from Ostia

Small marble base dedicated by C. Atilius Bassus, freedman and apparator of a priest of the Great Mother, to Silvanus dendrophoris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Marble column of Iunia Zosime from Ostia

Small marble column dedicated by Iunia Zosime, mater, to Virtus Dendrophori from silver weighing two pounds, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Marble base of Annius Lucullus Ostia

Small marble base with a dedication by T. Annius Lucullus, sevir and quinquennalis, to Martis Dendrophoris Ostiensium, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 143 A.D.

 

Marble base of Annius Merops from Ostia

Small marble base dedicated by Sex. Annius Merops, honoured Dendrophoros, to the image of Terrae Matris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 142 A.D.

 
Back to Top