Syndexios
Gaius Amandinius Verus
Findings from the Mithraeum of Dormagen
From Jost Auler's paper
Tauroctony of Dormagen
Bryaxis
Biography
of Gaius Amandinius Verus
- Gaius Amandinius Verus was a syndexios of the Mithräum von Dormagen.
- Active c. 171 – 230 in Durnomagus, Germania inferior (Gallia).
References
- Dorow, Wilhelm
- Fiedler, F
- Stark, Karl B
- David Ulansey (1991) The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Tauroctony of Dormagen in EDCS
- Jost Auler. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Dormagen
Mentions
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).
Tauroctony of 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.