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The New Mithraeum Database

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Mitreo di Felicissimo

The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Sabazio

The Mithraeum of Sabazeus was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

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Aurelius Crescens

An imperial freedman who restored the Mithraeum of Sabazeus for the Mithraic brethren.

Monumentum

Cippus of Aurelius Crescens from Ostia

A small cippus from the Mithraeum of Sabazeus records the rebuilding of the sanctuary after its collapse.

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Aulus Aemilius Antoninus

A Mithraic pater of Ostia who dedicated an altar to Cautes in the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.

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Titus Atilius Glyco

Roman citizen of Ostia who re-consecrated an earlier marble statue to Sol Invictus Mithras during the second century CE.

Monumentum

Torso dedicated to Mithras

Marble torso found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini, dedicated to Mithras by a certain Atilius Glyco.

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Hermes

Slave of a certain Macus Iulius Eunicus, Hermes dedicated a monument to Silvanus found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

Monumentum

Altar of Stertinius Carpus from the Ponte Emilio Area, Rome

This altar bears an inscription to the health of the emperor Commodus by a certain Marcus Aurelius, his father and two other fellows.

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Marcus Aurelius Stertinius Carpus

A devotee of Mithras who dedicated an altar for the health of Commodus alongside his father, a procurator castrensis, in Rome.

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Gaius Valerius Heracles

Senior Mithraic priest of Ostia whose inscriptions preserve rare and unique epithets of Mithras, including Incorruptus Juvenis and Indeprehensibilis.

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Marcus Aemilius Epaphroditus

Pater and priest of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres at Ostia during the sanctuary’s restoration and flourishing.

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Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

Syndexios

Lucius Tullius Agatho

Known from an altar dedicated to Mithras at Ostia during the tenure of the pater Marcus Aemilius Epaphroditus.

Monumentum

Dedication of Florius Hermadio from Ostia

Marble revetment inscription from the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis recording a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by the priest Florius Hermadio for the welfare of two emperors.

Syndexios

Marcus Caerellius Callinicus

A priest of Sol Invictus Mithras who helped dedicate a throne in the Casa di Diana mithraeum.

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Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus

A pater of the Ostian Mithraic community and member of the guild of carpenters.

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Marcus Lollianus Callinicus

A Mithraic pater at Ostia associated with the dedication of an image of Arimanius in the Casa di Diana mithraeum.

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Marcus Umbilius Kriton

Patronus of the corpus lenunculariorum tabulariorum auxiliariorum Ostiensium.

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Quintus Petronius Felix Marsus

Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.

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