People attested in Ostia
Inscriptions from Ostia
Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro
Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D[ono] D[edit] D[edicavit].
To the invincible god Mithras, Diocles, in honour of Caius Lucretius Menander, father, donated and dedicated this gift.
Mitreo di Felicissimo
Felicissimvs / ex voto f[ecit].
Felicissimus made [this] in fulfilment of a vow.
Mitreo di Sabazio
Fructus / suis in/pendis / consum/mavit.
Fructus spent [this] at his own expense.
Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
Soli invict[o] Mit[hrae] d[onum] d[edit] L. Agrius Calendio.
Lucius Agrius Calendio gave this gift to Sol Invictus Mithras.
Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan
Sig[num] imdeprehensivilis dei G[aius] Valerius Heracles sacerdos s[ua]
p[ecunia] p[osuit].
L[ucius] Sextius Karus et.
p[ecunia] p[osuit].
L[ucius] Sextius Karus et.
Statue of the indeprehensible god, Gaius Valerius Heracles, priest, at his own expense, placed [it].
And Lucius Sextius Karus.
And Lucius Sextius Karus.
Tauroctony from the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra
Κρίτων / Ἀθηναιος / έποίει.
Kriton the Athenian made [this].
Leontocephalic deity from the Fagan Mithraeum
C. Valeri/us Heracles pat[er] / et C[aii] Valerii / Vitalis et Nico/mes sacerdo/tes s[ua] p[e]c[unia] p[o]s[ue]r[unt]. / D[e]d[icatum] idi[bus] aug[ustis] im[peratore] / Com[odo] / VI et / Septi/miano / co[n]s[ulibus].
Gaius Valerius Heracles, father, and Gaius Valerius Vitalis and Gaius Valerius Nicome[de]s, priests, laid at their own expense. [Statue] dedicated on the ides of August, under the consulates of Emperor Commodus for the sixth time and Septimianus.
Bronze inscription from Aldobrandini
SEX POMPEIO SEX FIL / MAXIMO / SACERDOTI SOLIS IN / VICTI MT PATRI PATRVM / QQ CORP TREIECT TOGA / TENSIVM SACERDO / TES SOLIS INVICTI MT / OB AMOREM ET MERI /TA EIVS SEMPER HA / BET
Dedicated to Sextus Pompeius Maximus, son of Sextus, High Priest of the Sun God, Mithras, all powerful, and Father of Fathers, President of the Guild of Master Ferrymen. We, Priests of the all powerful Sun God, Mithras, do this on account of the high regard and affection we hold for him and his worthy deeds.
Tauroctony from the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
A. Decimius A[uli] f[ilius] Pal[atina] Decimianus s[ua] p[ecunia] restituit. //
A. Decimius A[uli] f[ilius] Pal[atina] Decimianus aedem / cum suo pronao ipsumque deum solem Mithra / et marmoribus et omni cultu sua p[ecunia] restituit. //
M. Aemilio / Epaphrodito / patre et sacerdote.
A. Decimius A[uli] f[ilius] Pal[atina] Decimianus aedem / cum suo pronao ipsumque deum solem Mithra / et marmoribus et omni cultu sua p[ecunia] restituit. //
M. Aemilio / Epaphrodito / patre et sacerdote.
Aulus Decimius Decimianus, son of Aulus, of the Palatina tribe, at his own expense, restored it.
Mosaic of the Mitreo di Felicissimo
FELICISSIMVS / EX VOTO F[ecit].
Felicissimus fulfilled his vow.
Aion relief of Mitreo Fagan
C. Valerius Heracles pat[e]r e[t] an[tis]/tes dei iu[b]enis inconrupti So[l]is invicti Mithra[e / c]ryptam palati concessa[m] sibi a M. Aurelio / ---.
Gaius Valerius Heracles, pater and priest of the young god Sol Invictus Mithras, made [?] the crypt of the palace, which was granted to him by Marcus Aurelius [---].
Inscription of Fructosus in Ostia
[L. Ag]rius Fructosus patron[us] corp[orationis] s[tupp[atorum], te]mpl[um] et spel[aeum] Mit[hrae] a solo sua pec[unia] feci[t].
Lucius Agrius Frutosus, patron of the guild of stuppatores, had the temple and spelaeum of Mithras built at his own expense.
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- Ostia Antica (2020) Regio V - Insula VI - Mitreo dei Serpenti (V,VI,6)
- Ostia-Antic (2020) Regio V - Insula IX - Mitreo di Felicissimus (V,IX,1)
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- Ostia-Antica.org (2020) Regio I - Insula X - Tempio Collegiale and Mitreo di Fructosus (I,X,4)
- Ostia-Antica.org (2020) Regio I - Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
- Ostia-Antica.org (2022) Regio II - Insula I - Mitreo Aldobrandini (II,I,2) and Torre sul Tevere (II,I,3)
- Ostia-Antica.org (2020) Regio III - Insula I - Domus and Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte (III,I,6)
- Ostia-Antica.org (2020) Regio III - Insula XVII - Caseggiato del Mitreo della Planta Pedis (III,XVII,2) and Mitreo
- Ostia-Antica.org (2020) Regio IV - Insula II - Mitreo degli Animali (IV,II,11)
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- Vittoria Canciani (2022) Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy
- jthb (2022) Domus dei Capitelli di Stucco (V,VII,4-5) (House of the Stuccoed Capitals)
- Regio I - Insula XVII - Mitreo delle Terme del Mitra (I,XVII,2) - Ostia-antica.org
- Regio I - Mitreo Fagan - Ostia-Antica.org
- Regio IV - Insula IX - Caupona del Dio Pan e Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati (IV,IX,5) - Ostia-Antica.org
