A Mithraic Pater from Caere known for initiating the Heliodromus Memmius Placidus.
Roman senator and Pater Patrum who led the Olympii Mithraic community in fourth-century Rome.
Subtitle Late Roman senator who rose from pater to pater patrum in the Mithraic community of San Silvestro in Capite.
Equestrian pater patrorum whose dedication to Cautes attests the involvement of Rome’s elite in Mithraism.
Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.
One of the two patres named in a communal dedication of the Mithraic congregation at Dura Europos during the reign of Caracalla.
Pater of the Mithraic community of Dura Europos attested in a communal dedication to Mithras and the syndexioi during the reign of Caracalla.
One of the few Mithraists whose progression from Nymphus to Miles and eventually to Pater may be traced epigraphically at Dura Europos.
One of the clearest examples of the late Roman aristocracy’s involvement in the mysteries of Mithras and other initiatory cults during the fourth century.
Physician and Pater Patrum of the Mithraic community of Vieu, known from an altar dedicated by his son Gaius Rufius Virilis.
Pater patrum and magister of the Mithraic community associated with the Esquiline Mithraeum.
Pater who consecrated the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen during the final phase of Mithraic worship in the Rhineland.
Pater nominos in Sidon, he consecrated a number of sculptures, including a Hecataion.
The pater Artemidorus seems to be an Augustan freedman of the Claudians, of Eastern origin.
Leading member of the Ostian Mithraic community, holder of the titles pater, sacerdos and antistes.
Pater of the Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander at Ostia, honoured by a dedication from Diocles in the late second or early third century CE.
A Mithraic pater of Ostia who dedicated an altar to Cautes in the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.
Senior Mithraic priest of Ostia whose inscriptions preserve rare and unique epithets of Mithras, including Incorruptus Juvenis and Indeprehensibilis.
Pater and priest of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres at Ostia during the sanctuary’s restoration and flourishing.