Syndexios
Marcus Ulpius Maximus
Altar to Sol Invictus Mithras by Marcus Ulpius Maximus.
Csaba Szabó, January 2026.
Biography
of Marcus Ulpius Maximus
Mentions
CIMRM 563
TNMM 1089
Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.
Ara posita asstante sacerdote Se[x(to)] / Creusina Se[c]undo ut voverant Ma/ximus et Maximinus fili imp(eratore) Comm/odo au (gusto) pio felice IIII et Victorino II co(n)s(ulibus).
Soli inbicto Mitre / M. Ulp(ius) Maximus prae/positus tabellari/orum aram cum / suis ornamentis / et bela domini / insicnis habentes (sic!) / n(umero) IIII / ut voverat d(onum) d(edit).
Soli inbicto Mitre / M. Ulp(ius) Maximus prae/positus tabellari/orum aram cum / suis ornamentis / et bela domini / insicnis habentes (sic!) / n(umero) IIII / ut voverat d(onum) d(edit).
The altar was set up, with the priest Sextus Creusina Secundus standing by, as Maximus and Maximinus had vowed, their sons, in the consulship of the emperor Commodus Augustus Pius Felix for the fourth time and Victorinus for the second time.
To Sol Invictus Mithras, Marcus Ulpius Maximus, praepositus of the couriers (tabellarii), set up this altar with its ornaments and the insignia and weapons of his lord, having (so it says) four units, and, as he had vowed, gave this gift.
To Sol Invictus Mithras, Marcus Ulpius Maximus, praepositus of the couriers (tabellarii), set up this altar with its ornaments and the insignia and weapons of his lord, having (so it says) four units, and, as he had vowed, gave this gift.
