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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.
 
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).

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