Aurelius Sabinius
Equites (chevalier) and Pater at Mithraeum Santo Stefano Rotondo.
General view of the mithraeum
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Altar to Cautes found in S. Stefano Rotondo
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Biography of Aurelius Sabinius
- Aurelius Sabinius was a Pater of the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo. He was a(n) Equites.
- Active c. 180 – 190 in Roma, Latium (Italia).
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:
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)
Mentions
Altars to Cautes and Cautopates of Stefano Rotondo
These two parallel altars to the diophores were dedicated by the Pater and a Leo from the Mithraeum of S. Stefano Rotondo.
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.
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.