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    Monumentum

    Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale

    The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.

    TNMM143 – CIMRM 254, 255

    C(aius) Caelius / Ermeros / ant/istes huius lo/ci fecit sua / pec(unia). Posit(a)e XV k(alendas) / febr(u)arias / Q(uinto) Iunio Rus/tico / L(ucio) Plaut[io] / Aquilin[o] / co[(n)s(ulibus)].
  • Syndexios

    Atimetus

    Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.
  • Syndexios

    Emilianus Corfo Olympius

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    Monumentum

    Fragments of plaque from Circo Massimo

    The inscription mentions the Pater Cossio Atiano.

    TNMM458 – CIMRM 451

    ... ub sedente / Cossio / [A]tiniano / patre.
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    Monumentum

    Marble slab with inscription of Aelius Urbanus

    The Mithraic fellow P. Aelius Urbanus mentions that he built the sacred area of the Mithraeum Circo Massimo.

    TNMM457 – CIMRM 449

    Soli invict[o Mithrae] / sacrarium [fecit] / P. Aelius Ur[banus or Urbicus] / sub A. Sergio Eutycho / sacerdote.
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    Monumentum

    Altar of Vieu

    This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.

    TNMM456 – CIMRM 911

    Dei i(nvicti) / M(ithrae) Patri Patru/m C(aio) Ru[t(io)] / Eutacto / C(aius) R(ufius) Viri/lis fil(ius).
  • Syndexios

    Loukios Satyrios Sporos

  • Syndexios

    Tamesius Augentius Olympius

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    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 …
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    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…
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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Monumentum

    Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano

    The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

    TNMM151 – CIMRM 641

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    Monumentum

    Second Petrogeny of Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.

    TNMM364

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    Monumentum

    Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

    TNMM165

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    Monumentum

    Head of Sol / Helios intarsio from Sant Prisca

    The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.

    TNMM385

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    Monumentum

    Mithraic Sol of Piazza Dante

    The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.

    TNMM384 – CIMRM 354, 355

    C(auto)p(ati) Primus pater fecit
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    Monumentum

    Taurcotony statue of the Esquiline Hill

    Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

    TNMM380 – CIMRM 352

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    Monumentum

    Mithras petrogenitus of the Esquilino

    The relief of Mithras being born from the rock of the Esquiline shows the young god naked, as usual, with a torch and a dagger in his hands.

    TNMM381 – CIMRM 353

 
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