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Monumentum

Slab with dedicatory poem from near S. Silvestro, Rome

Large marble slab found in 1648 near S. Silvestro in Capite, inscribed with a Latin dedicatory poem forming a cypher-acrostic for TAMESIUS and AUGENTIUS, with records of leontica and chrysos initiations, dated to 362 A.D.
 
The New Mithraeum
29 Jun 2026
CIL VI 753; MMM II No. 12. Saxum magnum marmoreum rep. anno 1648 in ecclesia S. Ioannis prope S. Silvestrum.Formatum est saxum in septem zothecas, quadrata quatuor, semi-circulares tres, quarum media arcu insignis est. Ante zothecas columnae parvulae porticum efficiunt.Olim Victor avus, caelo devotus et astris / Regali sumptu Phoebeia templa locavit. / Hunc superat pietate nepos, cui nomen avitum est: / Antra facit, sumptusque tuos nec Roma requirit; / Damna piis meliora lucro: quis ditior illo est / Qui cum caelicolis parcus bona dividit heres?Mamertino et Nebitta co[ns(ulibus)] / Nonius…

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