Syndexios
Fructus
Fructus was the slave who paid for the erection of the Mitreo del Sabazeo in Ostia.
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Biography
of Fructus
- Fructus was a syndexios at the Mitreo di Sabazio.
- Resident in Ostia, Latium, Italia (TNMM 490).
TNMP 113
Arpocras had the exedra made, Fructus donated the mosaic between the benches; both may have been slaves. L. Aemilius Eusc(– – –) fulfilled his vow to the Iuppiter Sabazius; the mithraeum of the beginning of the 3rd century, located in a part of a horreum, owes its modern name to this consecration.
References
- Manfred Clauss (1992) Cultores Mithrae. Die Anhangerschaft Des Mithras-Kultes
Attestations
Mitreo di Sabazio
TNMM 10
The Mithraeum of Sabazeus was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.
Fructus / suis in/pendis / consum/mavit.
Fructus spent [this] at his own expense.
Mosaic of Fructus from the Mitreo del Sabazeo
TNMM 490
The mosaic bears an inscription indicating the name of the owner.
Fruc[tus ?] / [s]uis in/pendis / consum/mavit.
Fructus, at its own expense, has accomplished [this].
