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Syndexios

Fructus

Slave of Pontus and father of Myro.

Biography
of Fructus

Fructus was a syndexios.
Resident in Roma, Latium, Italia in c. 2nd – 3rd century (TNMM 463).

TNMP 67

Fructus, as well as his son Myro, were instructed in the mysteries of Mithras by Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus.

He was the slave of a certain Pontus.

References

Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Altar of Fructus and Myro in EDCS

Attestations

Altar of Fructus and Myro

TNMM 463

This marble monument was dedicated in Rome by the slave Fructus and his son Myro.

Orienti / Fructus Ponti [servus] / cum Myrone [f[ilio]] / sub M. Aemilio / Chrysantho / mag[istro] anni primi.

In the East, Fructus, slave of Pontus, with [his] son Myro, under the orders of Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus, master [magister] of the first year.

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