This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Enter
Support The New Mithraeum The New Mithraeum is an independent, non-profit project dedicated to Mithraic studies, ancient religions and classical culture. Developed and maintained independently since 2007, the site exists without advertising, paywalls or institutional funding. If you have found value in its articles, interviews, photographs or database, please consider supporting the project with a contribution. Every contribution helps keep The New Mithraeum open, free and alive. Thank you.
Support us →
Syndexios

Aurelius Mithres

Imperial freedman and strator that offered a monument to Serapis.

Biography
of Aurelius Mithres

  • Aurelius Mithres is attested as a member of a Mithraic community (syndexios).
  • Attested at Roma, Latium, Italia in late 2nd – early 3rd century (TNMM 630).

TNMP 207

Aurelius Mithres was a slave of an emperor who released him for his services. He was a strator (στράτωρ), which literally means a person who keeps, harnesses and cares for a horse for another person. He added the words 'Aurelius' and 'l. strator' to the inscription he dedicated to Serapis after he was freed by the emperor.

Attestations

Inscription of Aurelius Mithres

Inscription of Aurelius Mithres

TNMM 630

This monument, found in the Domus Flavia in Rome, bears an inscription by a certain Aurelius Mithres.

[Aurel]ius / Mithres / Aug[usti] l[ibertus] strator / Serapi d[onum] d[edit].
Aurelius Mithres, an imperial freedman and strator, offered this gift to Serapis.
Back to Top