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Aurelius Sabinus

Equites and Pater at Mithraeum Santo Stefano Rotondo.

  • Altar to Cautes found in S. Stefano Rotondo

    Altar to Cautes found in S. Stefano Rotondo
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  • General view of the mithraeum

    General view of the mithraeum
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Biography
of Aurelius Sabinus

TNMP 87

Pater Aurelius Sabinus, together with leo Bebius Quintianus, dedicated two altars to Cautes and Cautopates found in the Mithraeum S. Stefano Rotondo. Aurelius Sabinius is also mentioned on a dedication to Hercules (CIL VI 273) as eq(ues) R(omanus), son of M. Aurelius Bassinus, centurion exercitator:

Deo Herculi Marcus Aurelius Bassinus centurio exercitator numeri equitum singularium cum Aurelio Sabino equite Romano filio votum libens solvit.
To the god Hercules. Marcus Aurelius Bassinus, centurio exercitator of the unit of the equites singulares, with Aurelius Sabinus, eques Romanus, his son, willingly discharged his vow.


Bassinus is known to have served in the frumentarii in the early 180s before being promoted to the horse guard. He was therefore not a centurion commissioned exequite Romano, but a man who had worked his way up from the ranks. His son, Sabinus, probably acquired equestrian status late in the reign of Commodus.

—M.P. Speidel, Die Denkmäler der Kaiserreiter: Equites Singulares Augusti (Bonn, 1994)

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Mentions

Altars to Cautes and Cautopates of Stefano Rotondo

TNMM 473

These two parallel altars to the diophores were dedicated by the Pater and a Leo from the Mithraeum of S. Stefano Rotondo.

Deo Cautae / Aur(elius) Sabinus, pa/ter huius loci, / et Bebius Quinti/anus ex voto posu/erunt.
Leo vivas / cum Caedicio / patre.

Deo Cautae/opathi / Aur(elius) Sabinus, / pater huius loci, / et Bebius Quintianus / leo, / ex voto posuerunt.
Leo vivas cum / Caedicio / patre.
Au dieu Cautes, Aurelius Sabinus, Père de ce lieu, et Bebius Quintianus, à la suite d'un voeu, ont déposé.
Que vive le Lion, avec Caedicius, Père.

Au dieu Cautopates, Aurelius Sabinius, Père de ce lieu, et Bebius Quintianus, Lion, à la suite d'un voeu, ont déposé.
Que vive le Lion, avec Caedicius, Père.

Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo

TNMM 17

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

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