Titus Atilius Glyco

Titus Atilius Glyco was a Roman citizen of Ostia, identified by his filiation and enrolment in the Palatine tribe. During the second half of the second century CE, he dedicated an earlier marble statue to Sol Invictus Mithras, having a votive inscription engraved directly on its chest. The sculpture itself probably dated to the first or early second century CE and was subsequently re-consecrated for Mithraic worship. Although his Greek cognomen may point to a family background connected with earlier generations of freedmen, his inscription clearly presents him as a free Roman citizen and a devotee of Mithras.