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  • Monumentum

    Relief of Aion on globe

    The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

    TNMM322 – CIMRM 543

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo Sacellum delle Tre Navate

    The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

    TNMM533

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

    The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

    TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 604

    D(onum) deo invicto d(ederunt) / Marci Matti / Fortuna/tus / et Alexander / et Pardus / et Eficax / per Fl(avio) Alexandro patre.
  • Monumentum

    Mithras petrogenitus from Villa Giustiniani

    Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

    TNMM124 – CIMRM 590, 591

    Nama / L(ucius) Fl(avius) Hermadion / hoc mihi libens / d(onum) d(edit).
  • Monumentum

    Basin of Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

    TNMM531 – CIMRM 275

    [In]victo Mithrae d(onum) d(edit) M(arcus) Umbilius Criton sum Pyladen vil[ico].
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

    TNMM17

  • Monumentum

    Mosaic of the Mitreo di Felicissimo

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

    TNMM166 – CIMRM 299

    FELICISSIMVS / EX VOTO F[ecit]
  • Monumentum

    Altar to a Perses of S. Silvestro in Capite

    This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.

    TNMM517 – CIMRM 402

    Datiano et Cereale cons(ulibus) / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) cl(arissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) [et] / Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) / tradiderunt Persica pri(die) non(as) apri…
  • Monumentum

    Altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    The altar includes a slab with an inscription for the salvation of two emperors.

    TNMM515 – CIMRM 273

    Pr(o) sal(ute) Augg(ustorum duorum) / S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / [L. ?] Florius Hermadio(n) / sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit).
  • Syndexios

    Lucius Florius Hermadion

    Priest. He devoted an inscription found on the main altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

    TNMM94 – CIMRM 272

  • Syndexios

    Proficentius

    Pater sacrorum and founder of the Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo.
  • Monumentum

    Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali

    The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

    TNMM145 – CIMRM 280

  • Syndexios

    Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

    Pater patrum and Pater sacrorum among other titles.
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

    The Mithraeum of the terms of Mithras takes its name from being installed in the service area of the Baths of Mithras.

    TNMM1 – CIMRM 229

  • Syndexios

    Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus

    Freedman of the two Marcus and 'magister of the first year'.
  • Syndexios

    Lollius Rufus

    This is the first Pater mentioned in an inscription known to date.
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus

    The marble altar mentions Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus as Pater Sacrorum and Patrum and his wife Aconia Fabia Paulina.

    TNMM273 – CIMRM 420

    D(is) M(anibus). Vettius Agorius Praetextatus augur, p[o]ntifex Vestae, pontifex Sol[is], quindecemvir curialis Herc[u]lis, sacratus Libero et Eleusiniis, hierophanta, neocorus, tauroboliatus, …
  • Syndexios

    Heliodoros

    One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.
  • Syndexios

    Theodoros

    One of the lions mentioned on the Santa Prisca procession fresco.
 
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