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MITHRAEUM
Mitreo di Lucrezio MenandroThe 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.
CIMRM 224
Italy
Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D(ono) D(edit) D(edicavit).
MONUMENTUM
Altar of the Mitreo MenandroThe brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.
CIMRM 225
Italy
Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D(ono) D(edit) D(edicavit).
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SYNDEXIOS
DioclesDedicated the main altar found in the Mithraeum of Menender.
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MONUMENTUM
Relief of Aion on globeThe lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.
CIMRM 543
Italy
MITHRAEUM
Mitreo di S. Silvestro in CapiteThis Mithraic temple, aka Mithraeum of the Olympii, was discovered in the 15th century in Rome, although traces have been lost except for a few monuments with remarkable inscriptions.
CIMRM 399
Italy
MITHRAEUM
Mitreo Sacellum delle Tre NavateThe 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.
Italy
MONUMENTUM
Altar of Aquileia to the brave god MithrasThis altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.
CIMRM 741
Italy
Deo f(orti) i(nvicto) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P. Aelius / Mercur(ialis) / Q. Tessig/nius Maxi/mia(nus) patr(es) / pros(esedente) T(ito) Aur(elio) / Victore v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).
MONUMENTUM
Inscription by Proficentius, RomeThis marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.
CIMRM 423
Italy
Hic locus est felix, sanctus, piusque benignus,
Quem monuit Mithras mentemque dedit
Proficentio patri sacrorum
Utque sibi spelaeum faceret dedicaretque
Et celeri instansque operi reddit munera...
MONUMENTUM
Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage MuseumThe relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.
CIMRM 603, 604
Italy
D(onum) deo invicto d(ederunt) / Marci Matti / Fortuna/tus / et Alexander / et Pardus / et Eficax / per Fl(avio) Alexandro patre.
MONUMENTUM
Tauroctonia del Cortile del BelvedereWhite marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.
CIMRM 546, 547
Italy
Soli invicto deo / Atimetus Aug(ustorum) n(ostrorum) ser(vus) act(uarius) praediorum Romaniarorum.
MONUMENTUM
Tauroctony 593This is the earliest known sculpture of a Roman Mithraic tauroctony.
CIMRM 593, 594
Italy
Alcimus T. Cl(audi) Liviani ser(vus) vilic(us) S(oli) M(ithrae) v(otum) s(olvit) d(onum) d(edit)
MONUMENTUM
Mithras petrogenitus from Villa GiustinianiMithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.
CIMRM 590, 591
Italy
Nama / L(ucius) Fl(avius) Hermadion / hoc mihi libens / d(onum) d(edit).
MONUMENTUM
Basin of Mitreo della Planta PedisThis 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.
CIMRM 275
Italy
[In]victo Mithrae d(onum) d(edit) M(arcus) Umbilius Criton sum Pyladen vil[ico].
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SYNDEXIOS
Ulbius GaianusPraefectus vehiculorum, an official of the Roman courier service.
MONUMENTUM
Inscription of Kastos father and sonSecond Mithraic monument dedicated by the Kastos family, found not far from the Arco di S. Lazzaro, in Rome.
CIMRM 473
Italy
Διί 'Ηλίω Μίθρα / άνεικήτω Κάστος / πατήρ καί Κάστος / ύιός / ύιός ίερός κόραξ.