A. Sergius Eutychus

A. Sergius Eutychus is known from a single fragmentary marble inscription discovered in the mithraeum of the Forum Boarium, commonly known as the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus. The white marble slab, later reused as the cover of a base attached to the main altar, records that Publius Aelius Ur(banus?) built a sacrarium dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras “under A. Sergius Eutychus, sacerdos” (Canciani 2022, 198). This is the only inscription securely attesting Eutychus and identifies him solely by the title sacerdos (TNMM 457).

The inscription is generally dated to the late 2nd or 3rd century CE. However, Szabó et al. (2023) has argued that it probably belongs to an earlier phase of the Mithraic community, perhaps Hadrianic or immediately post-Hadrianic, predating the extensive remodelling of the sanctuary during the Tetrarchic period. He further suggests that earlier inscriptions, including that of Publius Aelius Ur(banus?), may have been transferred into the later sanctuary. Although Walsh (2016) proposed that Eutychus may have held the grade of pater, the inscription itself identifies him only as sacerdos, and no higher Mithraic rank is explicitly attested.