
Syndexios
Aurelius Iustinianus
Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.
Biography
of Aurelius Iustinianus
- Aurelius Iustinianus was a syndexios.
- Active c. 301 – 310 in Poetovio, Pannonia superior (Pannonia).
TNMP 220
In Poetovio, in Pannonia Superior, at the beginning of the 4th century, the dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense left us this inscription, in which he claims to have built a temple to Sol invictus Mithras. The temple has survived to the present day under the name of Mithraeum IV de Ptuj.
References
- Bricault; Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj in EDCS
Mentions
Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj
TNMM 644
This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.
Templum / dei{i} Sol(is) Inv(icti) Mit(hrae) / Aure[l(ius)] Iusti/nianus v(ir) p(erfectissimus) / dux labefa/ctatum re/stituit.
The temple of the invincible Sol god Mithras, which had collapsed, was restored by Aurelius Iustinianus, perfectissime, dux.
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