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Marcus Caerellius Callinicus

Freedman, priest and antistes in Ostia.

Biography
of Marcus Caerellius Callinicus

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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