Syndexios
Cracissius
Senilius Carantinus
Senilius Carantinus, also named Cracissius, was a citizen (civis) of Mediomatrici.
Front view of Petrogenesis altar of Nida
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-NC-SA)
Biography
of Cracissius
- Cracissius was a syndexios of the Mithraea of Heddernheim.
- Active c. 2nd – 3rd century in Nida, Germania superior (Gallia).
TNMP 53
Senilius Carantinus, also named Cracissius, was a citizen (civis) of Mediomatrici which had as its principal town Divodurum Mediomatricorum, today Metz, in Gallia Belgica. His surname Crassicius is of Celtic origin.
Mentions
Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida
TNMM 388
The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.
D(eo) inv(icto) Mit(hrae) / Senilius Car/antinus / c(ivis) Medio/m(atricus)
V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito) / Sive Cracissiu[s]. // P(etram) genetricem.
V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito) / Sive Cracissiu[s]. // P(etram) genetricem.
To the invincible god Mithras, Senilius Carantinus, also named Cracissius, citizen of Mediomatricus, dedicated willingly, gladly and deservedly following a vow these images of Cautes, of the generative rock, of Cautopates, and of the Heaven and Ocean.
Mithraea of Heddernheim
TNMM 197
Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.
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