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Cracissius

Senilius Carantinus

Senilius Carantinus, also named Cracissius, was a citizen (civis) of Mediomatrici.

  • Front view of Petrogenesis altar of Nida

    Front view of Petrogenesis altar of Nida
    The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-NC-SA) 

Biography
of Cracissius

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.
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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