Syndexios
Potentianus
Alias Potentianum
Pater that consecrated the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen.
Incriptio of Corax from Gimmeldingen
Haselburg-Müller
Stone monuments from the Mithras sanctuary in Gimmeldingen
Haselburg-Müller
Biography
of Potentianus
- Potentianus was a Pater at the Mithräum von Gimmeldingen.
- Active 325 in Ad Enum, Noricum [TNMM 441].
Mentions
Inscription of Corax Materninius Faustinus of Gimmeldingen
TNMM 441
The inscription was located at the base of the main Tauroctony of the Gimmeldingen Mithraeum.
In h[onorem] d[omus] d[ivinae] / deo inviht[o] [sic] Midre [sic] / Maternin[i]us Faustinu[s] / carax [sic] fan[um] cum solo inviht[o] / in suo fecit c[ onsac]ratus XI k[alendis] Feb[ruariis].
Fanus [sic] consacrat[us] / per Potentianum / patrem co[n]s[ulibus] / Paulino et Iuliano /l[ibens] l[aetus] m[erito].
Fanus [sic] consacrat[us] / per Potentianum / patrem co[n]s[ulibus] / Paulino et Iuliano /l[ibens] l[aetus] m[erito].
In honour of the divine house, to the invincible god Mithras, Materninius Faustinus, Crow, consecrated a shrine with [a statue of] the invincible Sol, on his property [in suo], on the tenth day before the calendars of February. Sanctuary [fanum] consecrated by Potentianus, Father, the consuls being [Sextus Anicius Faustus] Paulinus and [Ionis] Iulianus, willingly, joyfully and justly.
Mithräum von Gimmeldingen
TNMM 49
The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.
