Syndexios
Trebius Alfius
He was one of the new brothers mentioned on the bronze plaque of Virunum.
Plaque with list of Mithraic fellows from Virunum
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-SA)
Biography
of Trebius Alfius
- Trebius Alfius was a Pater of the Mithraeum of Virunum.
- Active c. 183 in Virunum, Noricum.
- He was a Pater in Virunum.
References
- Bricault, Veymers, Amoroso et al. (2021) The Mystery of Mithras. Exploring the heart of a Roman cult
- Gernot Piccottini (1994) Mithrastempel in Virunum
- Roger Beck (1998) Qui mortalitatis causa convenerunt: The Meeting of the Virunum mithraists on June 26, A.D. 184
- Roger Beck (1998) The meeting of the Virunum Mithraists on June 26, A.D. 184
Mentions
Mithraeum of Virunum
TNMM 401
A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.
Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum
TNMM 375
The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) pro salute imp(eratoris) [[Commodi]] Auglustil pii / qui templum vii conlapsum impendio suo restituerunt / et mortalitat8is) causa convener(unt) / Marullo
et Aeliano coln/s(ulibus) VI k(alendas) lulias.
[There follows, in four columns, a list of 98 names, all masculine, with the first 34 in the same hand.]
Tiberius Claudius Quintilianus ob dedicationem templi tabulam / aeream donum dedit et camaram picturis exornavit.
et Aeliano coln/s(ulibus) VI k(alendas) lulias.
[There follows, in four columns, a list of 98 names, all masculine, with the first 34 in the same hand.]
Tiberius Claudius Quintilianus ob dedicationem templi tabulam / aeream donum dedit et camaram picturis exornavit.
To the invincible god Mithras, for the well-being of the emperor Commodus Augustus pius, those who restored at their own expense the temple that had collapsed, and who had gathered with mortality as their reason, during the consulship of Marullus and Aelianus, on the 6th day before the kalends of July. […] Tiberius Claudius Quintilianus, on the occasion of the dedication of the temple, offered this bronze plaque as a gift, and decorated the chamber with paintings.