Syndexios
Diocles
Dedicated the main altar found in the Mithraeum of Menender.
The marble slab with inscription.
Eric Taylor
Main aisle of the Mitreo Menandro.
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Biography
of Diocles
- Diocles was a syndexios of the Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro.
- Active early 3rd century in Ostia, Latium (Italia).
References
- Ostia-Antica.org (2021) Regio I - Insula III - Mitreo di Menandro (I,III,5)
Mentions
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.
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