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 …
In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult…