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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.
Mithraic basin from Ostia

Mithraic basin from Ostia
Francesco Massa 2021 

 
The New Mithraeum
17 Mar 2022

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Circular marble basin (R. 0.25 diam. 0.60) with inscription on its border.

L.H.0.022.

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

Criton (cf. inscr. No. 231) probably was a libertus of M. Umbilius Maximinus (CIL XIV, 177 and 251) who was a patronus of the corpus lenunculariorum tabulariorum auxiliariorum, ostiensium in 192 A.D. cf. G. Barbieri, l'Albo senatorio di Settimio Severo a Carino (193-285), Roma 1952, 184f.
Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 83 and Pl. XVI, 2.

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The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

Basin with inscription from Mitreo della Planta Pedis

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Altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis

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Coin of Valerian and Sol

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Inscription of Hermes to Silvanus

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