Syndexios
Lucius Sextius Karus
His name was added to the main tauroctony sculpture of the Mitreo Fagan.
Tauroctonia del Mitreo Fagan, Ostia.
Biography
of Lucius Sextius Karus
TNMP 20
We know almost nothing about this individual other than his name was later added to a marble statue found at the entrance of the so-called Mitreo Fagan. The statue was first dedicated by a certain priest G. Valerius Heracles to the ’indeprehensible god’.
Mentions
Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan
TNMM 106
This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.
Sig(num) imdeprehensivilis dei G(aius) Valerius Heracles sacerdos s(ua)
p(ecunia) p(osuit).
L(ucius) Sextius Karus et.
p(ecunia) p(osuit).
L(ucius) Sextius Karus et.
Statue of the indeprehensible god, Gaius Valerius Heracles, priest, at his own expense, placed (it).
And Lucius Sextius Karus.
And Lucius Sextius Karus.
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