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  • Syndexios

    Gaius Valerius Heracles

    Pater and priest of the Fagan Mithtraeum with several monuments to his name.
  • Syndexios

    Gaius Valerius Nicomedes

    Priest
  • Syndexios

    Aurelius Victor Augentius

    Pater Patrum of the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite
  • Syndexios

    Sextus Pompeius Maximus

    Pater Patrum of Ostia, he officiated at the Mitreo Aldobrandini where he is mentioned in a couple of inscriptions.
  • Syndexios

    Kastos (son)

    Together with his father, Kastos dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
  • Syndexios

    Felicissimus

    Probably the Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.
  • Syndexios

    Lucius Sextius Karus

    His name was added to the main tauroctony sculpture of the Mitreo Fagan.
  • Syndexios

    Kastos (father)

    Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
  • Monumentum

    Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather

    This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

    TNMM447 – CIMRM 406

    TAMESII / AUGENTII / OLYMPII / Olim Victor avus, caelo devotus et astris Regali sumptu Phoebeia templa locavit. Hunc superat pietate nepos, cui nomen avitum est: Antra facit, sumptusque tuos nec …
  • Monumentum

    Altar dedicated by Pater Patrum Augentius

    This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.

    TNMM445 – CIMRM 403

    Dd(ominis) nn(ostris) Valente V et Valentiniano / iuniore primum Augg(ustis) VI idus april(es) / tradidit hierocoracica Aur(elius) Victor / Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) filio suo Emi…
  • Monumentum

    Stele of the Arch of San Lazzaro

    This stele found at the foot of the Aventine bears an inscription of Kastos father and son, and mentions several syndexioi who shared the same temple.

    TNMM443 – CIMRM 473

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo all'Arco di San Lazzaro

    Three mithraic monuments were found in 1931, suggesting that a mithraeum probably existed in the area.

    TNMM442 – CIMRM 472

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo Fagan

    The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.

    TNMM98 – CIMRM 309

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Felicissimo

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

    TNMM7 – CIMRM 299

    Felicissimvs / ex voto f[ecit]
  • Monumentum

    Petrogeny of San Clemente

    Mithras birth from the knees upwards emerging from a rock and wearing as usual a Phrygian cap.

    TNMM435 – CIMRM 344

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo presso Porta Romana

    The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.

    TNMM41

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo delle Sette Porte

    The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.

    TNMM4 – CIMRM 287

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia

    Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.

    TNMM214