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  • Liber

    The Excavations in the Mithraeum of the Church of Santa Prisca in Rome (1965)

    The Mithraeum under and behind S. Prisca on the Aventine is without doubt the most important sanctuary of the Persian god in Rome.
  • Monumentum

    Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena

    The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.

    TNMM652 – CIMRM 660

    Soli invicto / Mitrhae(sic!) / Tiberius Claudi/us Tiberi filius / Thermodon / spelaeum cum / signis et ara / ceterisque / voti compos / dedit.
  • Monumentum

    Inscription to Mithras by Claudius Romanius from Köln

    Votive inscription dedicated to Mithras by the veteran soldier Tiberius Claudius Romanius, from the Mithraeum II Köln, 3rd century.

    TNMM559

    D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) S(oli) s(ocio) / Tiberius Cl(audius) / Romaniu[s] / veteranu[s] / l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Syndexios

    Tiberius Claudius Balbilus

    Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.
  • Syndexios

    Cnaeus Arrius Claudianus

    Libertus from the Arrii-family to which also belonged the Emperor Antonius Pius.
  • Syndexios

    Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

    Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.
  • Syndexios

    Tiberius Claudius Hermes

    He commissioned the main cult relief found in the Mithraeum of Circo Massimo.
  • Monumentum

    Fresco of procession of grades at Santa Prisca

    Procession of figures dressed in different ways with inscriptions calling them by the seven grades of the Mithraic initiation cult.

    TNMM115 – CIMRM 480

    Nama [patribus] / ab oriente / ad occiden[tem] / tutela Saturni; Nama H[eliodro]mis / tut[la]a S[ol]is; Nama Persis / tutela Lunae; Nama l[e]on[i-]b[us] / tutela Iovis; Nama militibus / tutela Mart[is…
  • Liber

    The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire. Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun (2007)

    Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.
  • Monumentum

    Plaque of Astorga

    This slab dedicated to the invincible god, Serapis and Isis by Claudius Zenobius was found in 1967 in the walls of the city of Astorga, Spain.

    TNMM734

    Invicto Deo / Serapidi et / Isidi / Cl(audius) Zenobius / Proc(urator) Aug(usti).