Aulus Aemilius Antoninus
The pater Aulus Aemilianus Antoninus dedicated an altar to Cautes in the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.
Interior view of the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-NC-SA)
Biography
of Aulus Aemilius Antoninus
- Aulus Aemilius Antoninus was a Pater of the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.
- Active c. 2nd half of 2nd century in Ostia, Latium (Italia).
TNMP 189
Marcus Lollianus Callinicus in 126c, 127, 128; Caius Lucretius Menander in 130a; and Aulus Aemilius Antoninus in 139c. It should be noticed that in two cases these devotees are mentioned as pater using the eponymous form (127, 128) just seen in Umbrian cases and that in other two cases they are referred to with likely the same eponymous intention with the phrase ob honorem (130a, 137b). It is quite puzzling on the other hand the absence of the use of the term prosidens/praesidens. He appears also simply mentioned as pater in inscription 137b.
—Vittoria Canciani (2022) Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy
References
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Cippus of Antoninus from Ostia in EDCS
- Ostia-Antica.org (2020) Regio III - Insula I - Domus and Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte (III,I,6)
Mentions
Cippus of Antoninus from Ostia
TNMM 740
This small white marble cippus bears an inscription of a certain Pater Antoninus to Cautes.
[An]tonin[us] / pater / Cauti.
Pater Antoninus to Cautes.
Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
TNMM 2
The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.