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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
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
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.
MITHRAEUM
Mitreo di Santa PriscaThe Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.
CIMRM 476
Italy
MONUMENTUM
Altar to a Perses of S. Silvestro in CapiteThis monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.
CIMRM 402
Italy
Datiano et Cereale cons(ulibus) / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) cl(arissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) [et] / Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) / tradiderunt Persica pri(die) non(as)...
MONUMENTUM
Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al LateranoThis inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.
CIMRM 362
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
Altar of Vettius Agrorius PraetextatusThe marble altar mentions Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus as Pater Sacrorum and Patrum and his wife Aconia Fabia Paulina.
CIMRM 420
Italy
D(is) M(anibus).
Vettius Agorius Praetextatus
augur, p[o]ntifex Vestae,
pontifex Sol[is], quindecemvir
curialis Herc[u]lis, sacratus
Libero et Eleusiniis, hierophanta,
neocorus,...
MONUMENTUM
Fresco of lions at Santa PriscaThe inscription is above a procession of men carrying animals, bread, a crater and other objects that appear to be in preparation for a feast.
CIMRM 481, 482
Italy
Nama Nicephoro leoni; nama Theodoro leoni.
Nama Hel[io]doro leoni; Nama Gelasio leoni; Nama Phoebo leoni.
MONUMENTUM
Fresco of procession of grades at Santa PriscaProcession of figures dressed in different ways with inscriptions calling them by the seven grades of the Mithraic initiation cult.
CIMRM 480
Italy
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...
MONUMENTUM
Votive plaque of StockstadtThis plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.
CIMRM 1206, 1207
Germany
[D(eo)] i(nvicto) M(ithrae) et S(oli) s(ocio) Argata / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
MONUMENTUM
Tauroctony of the Villa BorgheseThis relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.
CIMRM 415, 416
Italy
Nama Sebesio. / Deo Soli invict[o] Mitrhe (sic!) / C(aii) Aufidii Ianuarius [et…] Nam/a/ ne CS