Votive Altar to Mithras

176-192 CE (Roman Imperial)

74 cm 117.5 cm 37.8 cm

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This altar was dedicated to the god Mithras for the health of the emperor Commodus by Marcus Aurelius Stertinius Carpus and his father Carpus, along with Hermioneus and Balbinus. The inscription was first recorded by Stephanus Pighius (1520-1604) in the late 16th century as on...

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First reported by Stephanus Pighius (1520-1604) as on the banks of the Tiber River near the Ponte Rotto, Rome. Cardinal Gaspare Carpegna, Rome, by 1699. Don Marcello Massarenti, Rome, by 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown] [marble no. 53]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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