Syndexios
Diocles
Dedicated the main altar found in the Mithraeum of Menender.
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Biography
of Diocles
- Diocles was a syndexios at the Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro.
- Resident in Ad Enum, Noricum in c. early 3rd century (TNMM 534).
TNMP 163
Diocles dedicated the principal altar of the Mithraeum of Menander at Ostia to Mithras in honour of the pater Gaius Lucretius Menander. His Greek name has been interpreted as possible evidence of servile origin, although his precise status remains unknown.
References
- Ostia-Antica.org (2021) Regio I - Insula III - Mitreo di Menandro (I,III,5)
Attestations
Altar of the Mitreo Menandro
TNMM 534
The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.
Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D[ono] D[edit] D[edicavit].
To the invincible god Mithras, Diocles, in honour of Caius Lucretius Menander, father, donated and dedicated this gift.
Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro
TNMM 6
The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.
Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D[ono] D[edit] D[edicavit].
To the invincible god Mithras, Diocles, in honour of Caius Lucretius Menander, father, donated and dedicated this gift.
