Syndexios
Gaius Curius Avitus
Vista interior de la Casa del Mitreo
Cautopates of Mérida
The New Mithraeum / Olivier-Antoine Reÿnès (CC BY-NC-SA)
Biography of Gaius Curius Avitus
- Gaius Curius Avitus was a brother of the Casa del Mitreo de Mérida.
- Active circa 2nd – 3rd century in Emerita Augusta, Lusitania (Hispania).
Caius Curius Avitus financed the Cautopates with a dolphin found at the Casa del Mitreo in Merida when Accius Hedychrus was Pater. The sculpture was made by a greek named Demetros.
His community
in Casa del Mitreo de Mérida
Mentions
Cautopates from Casa del Mitreo of Mérida
The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.
Invicto sacrum C. Curius Avitus / Acci(o) Hedychro pa(tre).
Δημήτριος ἐποίει
Δημήτριος ἐποίει
Dedicated to the invincible. Caius Curius Avitus, Accius Hedychrus being Father.
Demetros made it.
Demetros made it.
