Fronto Leveius
Alias Fronto Libens
He offered an altar within the Astures community.
Biography
of Fronto Leveius
- Fronto Leveius was a syndexios of the Mitreo de San Juan de la Isla.
- Active c. 200 in Colunga, Tarraconensis (Hispania).
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It is impossible to determine Fronto's socio-economic status, but he seems to have enjoyed a free status, of local origin.
Fronto offers his altar in the presence of the pater patrum of the community and all the initiates of the fourth degree, the lions. In other words, the local Mithraists are perfectly organised and Fronto seeks a place of integration or empowerment in this community.
Fronto, a native of wherever he was from, could be a well-travelled and educated merchant who, at one point in his life, decides to make an offering in a mithraeum that has existed for a long time.
—Mitra en Hispania, 2021.
References
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla in EDCS
- Hispania Epigraphica. Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Islain HE
- Mitra en Hispania (2022) Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla in MEH
Mentions
Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla
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The monument of San Juan de la Isla (Asturias) devoted to Mithras was preserved in the portico of the main church until 1843.
Mitreo de San Juan de la Isla
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