Biography
of Gaius Amandinius Verus
- Gaius Amandinius Verus is attested as a member of a Mithraic community (syndexios) at the Mithräum von Dormagen.
- Attested in the 171 – 230.
- Attested in Durnomagus, Germania inferior, Germania in 171 – 230 (TNMM 264).
References
- Dorow, Wilhelm.
- Fiedler, F.
- Stark, Karl B.
- David Ulansey (1991) The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World.
- Alfred Shenington Geden. Tauroctony of Dormagen in EDCS.
- Jost Auler. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Dormagen.
Attestations
Mithräum von Dormagen
TNMM 91
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
Deo Soli i[nvicto] M[ithrae] p[ro] s[alute] i[mperatoris] Suran l[ibertus] dupl[icarius] ale Noricorum ci[vis] Trax v[otum] s[olvit] l[ibens] m[erito].
To the god Sol Invictus Mithras, for the well-being of the emperor, Suran, freedman, duplicarius of the Ala Noricorum, a Thracian citizen, willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow.
Tauroctony from Dormagen
TNMM 264
The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.
D[eo] S[oli] i[nvicto] imp[erio] C. Amandinius / Verus buc[inator] v[otum] l[ibens] l[aetus] m[erito].
Under the command of the Unconquered Sun God, C. Amandinius Verus, the trumpeter, willingly, gladly, and deservedly fulfils his vow.
