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This image is a fictional historical visualization. No authentic portrait of Marcus Caerellius Callinicus is known to survive.
Syndexios

Marcus Caerellius Callinicus

A priest of Sol Invictus Mithras who helped dedicate a throne in the Casa di Diana mithraeum.

Biography
of Marcus Caerellius Callinicus

  • Marcus Caerellius Callinicus is attested as a member of a Mithraic community (syndexios).
  • Attested in the 2nd century.
  • Attested in Ostia, Latium, Italia in 2nd century (TNMM 488).

TNMP 111

Marcus Caerellius Callinicus is known from a fragmentary inscription discovered near the Casa di Diana at Ostia, probably originating from the adjacent mithraeum. In the text he appears together with Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus as sacerdos and antistes of Sol Invictus Mithras, and the two men are recorded as having commissioned or dedicated a throne (thronum fecerunt) for the cult. Beyond this inscription, nothing certain is known about his life, status, or occupation. His nomen suggests a connection with the Caerellii attested at Ostia and Rome, although the precise nature of that relationship remains unknown.

Attestations

Inscriptions of Caseggiato di Diana

TNMM 488

This marble slab found near the Casa de Diana in Ostia bears two inscription with several names of brothers of a same community

[M. Lollia]no Callinico / [patre Pe]tronius Felix / [Marsus sign]um deo / [donum] ded[it] / . . . atus xinu . . . / fecit.

M. M. Caer[ellius Hiero]/nimus et C[allinic]/us sacerdo[tes et antisti]/es Solis [invic[ti] Mithrae] / thronum / fec[erunt].
Marcus Lollianus Callinicus being [Pater, Quintus Pe]tronius Felix [Marsus] offered [as a gift] the image of the god and dedicated it [---atus, at his own expense?] did.

Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus and Marcus Caerellius Callinicus, priests and antistes of Sol invincible Mithras, made the throne.
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