Syndexios
Lucius Aelius Hylas
Tauroctony of Doştat
Ortolf Harl
Biography
of Lucius Aelius Hylas
- Lucius Aelius Hylas was a syndexios.
- Active c. 2nd – 3rd century in Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, Dacia superior (Dacia).
References
- Bricault; Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain
- Epigraphic Database Heidelberg. Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas from Doştat in EDH
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas from Doştat in EDCS
Mentions
Tauroctony of Aelius Hylas from Doştat
TNMM 642
This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.
Io(vi) S(oli) invi(cto) / deo genitori / r(upe) n(ato).
L. Aeli(us) Hylas (vicesimarius) l(ibertus) pr(o) sa(lute) et Horientis (sic) fil(ii) sui et Apuleia(e) eius signum numinis cum absidata / ex voto pos(uit).
L. Aeli(us) Hylas (vicesimarius) l(ibertus) pr(o) sa(lute) et Horientis (sic) fil(ii) sui et Apuleia(e) eius signum numinis cum absidata / ex voto pos(uit).
To Jupiter Sol invincible, god progenitor born of rock.
Lucius Aelius Hylas, collector of the twentieth tax, freed, for his health, that of his son Horiens and (his wife) Apuleia, following a vow, had the image of the divinity placed with the niche.
Lucius Aelius Hylas, collector of the twentieth tax, freed, for his health, that of his son Horiens and (his wife) Apuleia, following a vow, had the image of the divinity placed with the niche.