Syndexios
Yperanthes
He offered an inscription that was walled into the Barberini Mithraeum.
Inscription slab of Barberini Mithraeum
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General view of the Mitreo de Barberini
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Biography
of Yperanthes
- Yperanthes was a syndexios of the Mitreo Barberini.
- Active c. 3rd century in Roma, Latium (Italia).
TNMP 72
The name of Yperanthes seems to be of Persian origin. He offered an inscription that was walled in the right projecting elevation before the cult niche, in a red frame, in which traces of red and blue colours.
A graffito on the left wall of the temple shows the name of Macarius who may have been one of the brothers of Yperanthes.
References
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Two-sided relief of Dieburg in EDCS
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Marble slab with inscription from Mitreo Barberini in EDCS
Mentions
Marble slab with inscription from Mitreo Barberini
TNMM 466
The inscription mentions the name of the donor, Yperanthes, of Persian origin.
Yperanthes / basem inbicto / donum / dedit [ab Mitra].
Yperanthes offered the plinth as a present to the invincible god Mithras.
Mitreo Barberini
TNMM 14
The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.