Monumentum
Graffito "Dominus Sol hic avitat" from the Caseggiato del Sole
Graffito on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole adjacent to the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia, reading "Dominus Sol hic avitat" (Lord Sun dwells here).
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 944 ↔ CIMRM 298
Graffito, inscribed by the possessor of a simple dark room, on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole (Reg. V, Is. VI, I); this house is situated annex to the Mitreo dei Serpenti (Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 125ff, fig. 24 and pl. XXXVIII, 4) (L.H. 0.02–0.04).
Dominus Sol / hic avitat.
avitat: abitat.
CIMRM II 298
avitat: (h)abitat. For Dominus Sol cf. No. 583 and 753.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
