Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus
Freedman, Pater, priest and antistes.
Plan of the Mithraeum of the House of Diana
Eric Taylor
Biography of Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus
- Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus was a Pater of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana.
- Active c. 2nd century in Ostia, Latium (Italia).
Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus was member, in 198, of the collegium of the fabri tignuariorum Ostiensium (CIL XIV 4569). He was also pater (CIMRM 282, CIL XIV 70) as it is said a small white marble base discovered in 1867 in the area of the sanctuary of Magna Mater.
The Caerelli people seem to have played, in the 2nd-3rd centuries, an important role in the college of pistores in Rome and Ostia. In Rome we know a M. Caerellius Zmaragdus, curator pistorum in 144 (CIL VI 1002 = 31222) and in Ostia a M. Caerellius Iazemis, quinquennalis pistorum III et perp(etuus), et codicarius, item mercator frumentarius (CIL XIV 4234).
—Bricault et Roy 2021.
Mentions
Inscriptions of Caseggiato di Diana
This marble slab found near the Casa de Diana in Ostia bears two inscription with several names of brothers of a same community
M. M. Caer[ellius Hiero]/nimus et C[allinic]/us sacerdo[tes et antisti]/es Solis [invic(ti) Mithrae] / thronum / fec(erunt).
Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus and Marcus Caerellius Callinicus, priests and antistes of Sol invincible Mithras, made the throne.