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  • Monumentum

    Coin of Valerian and Sol

    This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

    TNMM557 – CIMRM 277

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

    The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

    TNMM6 – CIMRM 224

    Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D(ono) D(edit) D(edicavit).
  • Monumentum

    Altar of the Mitreo Menandro

    The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

    TNMM534 – CIMRM 225

    Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D(ono) D(edit) D(edicavit).
  • Syndexios

    Diocles

    Dedicated the main altar found in the Mithraeum of Menender.
  • 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

    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].
  • 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]
  • Syndexios

    Lucius Florius Hermadion

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

    Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali

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

    TNMM145 – CIMRM 280

  • 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

    Gaius Valerius Vitalis

    Priest
  • Monumentum

    Floor mosaic of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

    It bears an inscription repeated on each side of the podia.

    TNMM492 – CIMRM 251

    Soli invict(o) Mit(hrae) d(onum) d(edit) L. Agrius Calendio.
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

    The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.

    TNMM2 – CIMRM 264

  • Monumentum

    Inscription of Lucius Sempronius

    Slab marble indicates that Lucius Sempronius has donated a throne to the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.

    TNMM489 – CIMRM 266

    Soli / L. Semproniu(s) / thronum.
  • Monumentum

    Inscriptions of Caseggiato di Diana

    This marble slab found near the Casa de Diana in Ostia bears two inscription with several names of brothers of a same community

    TNMM488 – CIMRM 223

    [M. Lollia]no Callinico / [patre Pe]tronius Felix / [Marsus sign]um deo / [donum] ded(it) / . . . atus xinu . . . / fecit. M. M. Caer[ellius Hiero]/nimus et C[allinic]/us sacerdo[tes et antisti]/es…
  • Syndexios

    Lucius Tullius Agatho

    Donated an altar to the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere while Marcus Aemilius Epaphroditus was Pater.
  • Syndexios

    Marcus Aemilius Epaphroditus

    Pater and priest of the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
  • Monumentum

    Basin with inscription from Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    The dedicator of this marble basin could be the same person who offered the sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull in the Mitreo delle Terme di Mitra.

    TNMM486 – CIMRM 275

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

    Fragment with inscription to Arimanius Casa di Diana

    The image of the god Arimanius to which this monument refers has not yet been found.

    TNMM482 – CIMRM 221, 222

    M(arco) Lolliano Callinico patre / Q. Petronius Felix Marsus / [..]L (?) signum Arimanium do(o) ded(it) d(edicavit).
  • Syndexios

    Lucius Agrius Fructosus

    Patron of the Ostian college of stuppatores
 
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