Syndexios
Gaius Valerius Vitalis
Priest
Leontocéfalo del Mitreo Fagan
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Biography
of Gaius Valerius Vitalis
- Gaius Valerius Vitalis was a syndexios of the Mitreo Fagan.
- Active c. 190 in Ostia, Latium (Italia).
References
- Regio I - Mitreo Fagan - Ostia-Antica.org
- Alain Blomart (1995) Frugifer : Une divinité mithraique léontocéphale décrite par Arnobe
- Arnobius (310) Adversus nationes (Against the Pagans)
Mentions
Aion of Mitreo Fagan
TNMM 116
The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.
C. Valeri/us Heracles pat(er) / et C(aii) Valerii / Vitalis et Nico/mes sacerdo/tes s(ua) p(e)c(unia) p(o)s(ue)r(unt). / D(e)d(icatum) idi(bus) aug(ustis) im(peratore) / Com(odo) / VI et / Septi/miano / co(n)s(ulibus)
Gaius Valerius Heracles, father, and Gaius Valerius Vitalis and Gaius Valerius Nicome(de)s, priests, laid at their own expense. (Statue) dedicated on the ides of August, under the consulates of Emperor Commodus for the sixth time and Septimianus
Mitreo Fagan
TNMM 98
The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.