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This image is a fictional historical visualization. No authentic portrait of Gaius Lucretius Mnester is known to survive.
Syndexios

Gaius Lucretius Mnester

Assistant magister.

Altar of Mnester and Philetus, front
Altar of Mnester and Philetus, frontEDCS

Biography
of Gaius Lucretius Mnester

  • Gaius Lucretius Mnester is attested as a member of a Mithraic community (syndexios).
  • Attested in the 2nd – 3rd century.
  • Attested in Roma, Latium, Italia in 171 – 230 (TNMM 785).

References

Attestations

Altar from Rome by Mnester and Philetus

TNMM 785

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

Deo / invicto / Mithrae / C[aius] Lucretius Mnester / M[arcus] Aemilius Philetus / summag[istri] anni primi / M[arcus] Aemili Chrysanti / d[e] s[uo] d[onum] d[ederunt].
To the God Invincible Mithras, Gaius Lucretius Mnester and Marcus Aemilius Philetus, as the chief priests in the first year of Marcus Aemilius Chrysantus, gave [this] gift from their own expense.
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