Votive Altar to Mithras

Conservation Provenance Inscription Credit

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/21/1961	Treatment	cleaned
7/20/1970	Treatment	cleaned

Provenance First reported by Stephanus Pighius (1520-1604) as on the banks of the Tiber River near the Ponte Rotto, Rome; Villa Carpegna, Rome, by 1699; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Inscription] SOLI INVICTO / MITHRAE / PRO SALVTE COMMOD / ANTONINI. AVG. DOMIN N / M. AVREL. STERTINIVS / CARPVS. VNA. CVM CARPO / PROC. K. PATRE. ET. HER/MIONEO ET BALBINO FRATRIBVS / -V S F- / 7 [CIL VI 727]

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902

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Creator

Roman (Artist)

Period

2nd century CE (Roman Imperial)

Medium

marble
(Sculpture)

Accession Number

23.17

Measurements

H: 46 1/4 x W: 29 1/8 x D: 14 7/8 in. (117.5 x 74 x 37.8 cm)

Geographies

Roman Empire (Place of Origin)
Italy, Roman Empire, Rome (Place of Discovery)

Location Within Museum

Not On View