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Gaius Camilius Superatus

Gaius dedicated an altar to the god Invictus in Emerita Augusta in the 2nd century.

Altar by Caius Aemelius Superaius of Merida
Altar by Caius Aemelius Superaius of MeridaThe New Mithraeum / Olivier-Antoine Reÿnès (CC BY-NC-SA)

Biography
of Gaius Camilius Superatus

TNMP 10

We possess only limited knowledge regarding this individual, who voluntarily and gladly erected a modest altar bearing an inscription to an unconquered deity in Emerita Augusta, Lusitania. His name is abbreviated "C. CAMLIV. SPERAT.", which is probably an epithet referring to Caius or Gaius Camilius Superatus. The following inscription, found in Malaca, is that of a certain L. Servilius Supera, which could be misread as the same person who erected both altars to an invictus god or lord in south Spain.

CIL II 1966

L(ucius) Servilius Supera / tus Domino Invicto / donum libens ani/mo posuit / ara(m) merenti.

Attestations

Altar by Caius Aemilius Superaius of Merida

TNMM 426

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

Deo / Invicto / C[aius] Camilius / Superat[us] / a[nimo] l[ibens] p[osuit].
To the Unconquered God, Caius Camilius Superatus willingly and gladly placed [this].
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