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Syndexios

Mάρκος Σίκις Δόσσις

Alias Marcus Sikis Dossis

Member of the Mithraic community attested at Kreta in Moesia Inferior.

Biography
of Mάρκος Σίκις Δόσσις

TNMP 298

Marcus Sikis Dossis was a devotee of Helios Mithras attested at the Mithraeum of Kreta. Like other worshippers from the sanctuary, including Straton son of Straton, he dedicated a sandstone altar inscribed in Greek. His mixed Roman and local naming formula reflects the cultural environment of the Greek-speaking Lower Danube provinces during the Roman period.

Attestations

Altar of Marcus Sikis Dossis from Kreta

TNMM 2018

Sandstone altar with patera from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior, bearing a Greek inscription dedicating an altar to Helios Mithras by Marcus Sikis Dossis.

[M]άρκος Σίκις Δόσσις ἔθηκε βωμὸν Ἡλίῳ Μίθρᾳ.
Marcus Sikis Dossis erected an altar to Helios Mithras.

Mithraeum at Kreta

TNMM 2016

Mithraic sanctuary excavated in a quarry at Kreta near Nikopol, Moesia Inferior, carved into the rock and including a small niche with a sandstone tauroctony relief, a base, and several altars.

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