Lucius Gavidius Lanius

Lucius Gavidius Lanius, son of Marcus, is named as the donor on a marble statue base from Stabiae (TNMM 600; AE 2001, 787; AE 2002, 310; EDR111778). The base was found during work on the cathedral of Castellammare di Stabia between 1876 and 1879. Only traces of the statue’s feet survive. Canciani (2022) dates the base to the late second century AD and records it in the Museo Diocesano Sorrentino-Stabiese, inventory number 67580.Canciani reads the dedication as a gift for the worshippers of Mithras, cultoribus dei Mithr[ae]. Chalupa (2023) observes that cultoribus, ‘for the worshippers’, is legible…