CIMRM 312-313 - The lion-headed god


From here.

From Wikimedia Commons. Named "Leontocephaline Ostia".

From here.

A "sacerdos" or priest with a single Greek name is included in the inscription. He may well be a slave.1

CIMRM entry

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C. Valerius Heracles, the "Pater", and his sons Vitalis and Nicomedes, the priests, erected this with their own money. Dedicated on the Ides of August, Emperor Commodus (for the sixth time) and Septimianus being consuls. (I.e. 13th August, AD 190)


1John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz, "The expansion of Mithraism among the religious cults of the second century", In: "Decline And Change in Late Antiquity: Religion, Barbarians And Their Historiography", Ashgate, 2006, p.195-216. P.201 and p.200: "It is a mark of Mithraism when it first becomes visible that its adherents were socially fairly humble."

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