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Monumentum

Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano
This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.
CIMRM 362
From Italy
Soli / invicto Mithrae / T. Flavius Aug(usti) lib(ertus) Hyginus / Ephebianus / d(onum) d(edit). Ἡλίῳ Μίθραι / Τ(ίτος) Φλάουιος Ὑγεῖος / διὰ Λολλίου...
Monumentum

Tauroctony 593
This is the earliest known sculpture of a Roman Mithraic tauroctony.
CIMRM 593, 594
From Italy
Alcimus T. Cl(audi) Liviani ser(vus) vilic(us) S(oli) M(ithrae) v(otum) s(olvit) d(onum) d(edit)
Mithraeum

Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana
The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.
CIMRM 216
From Italy
Monumentum

Cippus from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
These small monuments bear the inscriptions of two of the brothers involved in the Mithras cult at the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.
CIMRM 269, 270
From Italy
C. Caelius E[r]/meros / antis/tes h[ui]/us loc[i] / fecit / s(ua) p(ecunia). A(ulus) Aemi / lius An/toninus / pater / Cauti
Syndexios

Aulus Aemilius Antoninus
The pater Aulus Aemilianus Antoninus dedicated an altar to Cautes in the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte.
Monumentum

Altar at Caseggiato di Diana
This altar was originally consecrated to Hercules and was rededicated to Mithras by Callinicus in the Mithraeum of the House of Diana.
CIMRM 219, 220
From Italy
M. Lollianus / Callinicus pater / aram deo / do(num) de(dit)
Monumentum

Fragment with inscription to Arimanius Casa di Diana
The image of the god Arimanius to which this monument refers has not yet been found.
CIMRM 221, 222
From Italy
M(arco) Lolliano Callinico patre / Q. Petronius Felix Marsus / [..]L (?) signum Arimanium do(o) ded(it) d(edicavit).
Mithraeum

Mitreo dei Serpenti
The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.
CIMRM 294
From Italy
Syndexios

Nigidius Figulus
Pythagorean and mage.
Monumentum

Grand camée de France
Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.
From Turkey
Monumentum

Aion gold figurine from Geneva
This small golden figurine seems to represent the Mithraic god Aion, as usual surrounded by a serpent.
From Italy
Monumentum

Aion of Orazio Muti
This monument has been identified from 'Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma', a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.
From Italy
Monumentum

Tauroctony of the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres was discovered in 1802 by Petirini by order of Pope Pius VII.
CIMRM 245, 246
From Italy
A. Decimius A(uli) f(ilius) Pal(atina) Decimianus s(ua) p(ecunia) restituit. // A. Decimius A(uli) f(ilius) Pal(atina) Decimianus aedem / cum suo pronao ipsumque deum solem Mithra / et marmoribus...
Monumentum

Inscription of Tellius Agatho in Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
This inscription found in the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres mentions the Pater Marco Aemiliio Epaphrodito known from other monuments in Ostia.
CIMRM 248, 249
From Italy
L(ucius) Tullius Agatho / deo Inuicto Soli / Mithrae aram d(ono) d(edit) / eanque (sic) dedicauit ob / honore(m) dei, M(arco) Aemilio / Epaphrodito, patre.
Monumentum

Altar with inscription of Sentinum
This altar found in Sentinum bears an inscription from two brothers.
CIMRM 689
From Italy
Invicto / prosedente / Sevio Facundo / Umbri / Rufinus et / Aemilianus / leones.
Monumentum

Aion of Villa Albani
White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.
CIMRM 545
From Italy
Monumentum

Album of Sentinum
This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.
CIMRM 688
Cultores D(ei) S(olis) I(nvicti) Mithrae / patroni, prosedente C. Propertio Profuturo. Coiedius Proculus / Ligurius Theodotus / Mussius Vindex / Coiedius Hilarianus / Sentin(as) pater leonum...
Syndexios

Sentinas Ianuarius
Pater leonum and public freedman of Sentinum.
Monumentum

Inscription of two Gessius from Sentinum
Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.
CIMRM 687
Dicatus V id(us) Sept(embres) Antonino aug(usto) II et sacerdote II co(n)s(ulibus) N(umini) s(ancto) S(olis) i(nvicti) Mithrae / duo Gessi Castus / et Severus simu/lacrum exoma/tum voto...
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Spoleto
The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.
CIMRM 673
From Italy