Sextus Fusinius Felix
Donor of a small altar from the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates, Sextus Fusinius Felix may belong to a family attested among Ostia’s augustales.
Biography
of Sextus Fusinius Felix
- Sextus Fusinius Felix was a syndexios at the Mitreo delle Sette Porte.
- Attested in Ostia, Latium, Italia (TNMM 938).
TNMP 297
Sextus Fusinius Felix is known from a small marble altar discovered in front of the entrance to the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia. The inscription records only that he offered the monument as a gift. No profession, civic office, legal status or Mithraic grade is mentioned. Becatti suggested that he may have been related to a Sextus Fusinius attested as an augustalis in a collegial album of 140 CE, a possibility later repeated by other scholars, although the identification remains unproven.
Attestations
Marble altar of Fusinius Felix from Ostia
TNMM 938
Marble altar found near the entrance of the Mitreo delle Sette Porte at Ostia, dedicated by Sextus Fusinius Felix.
Mitreo delle Sette Porte
TNMM 4
The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.
