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

Fructus

Slave of Pontus and father of Myro.

Biography
of Fructus

  • Fructus is attested as a member of a Mithraic community (syndexios).
  • Attested in the 2nd – 3rd century.
  • Attested in Roma, Latium, Italia in 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

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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