Aurelius Sabinus
Equites and Pater at Mithraeum Santo Stefano Rotondo.
Biography
of Aurelius Sabinus
- Aurelius Sabinus is attested as a Pater at the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo, with a recorded public career as Equites.
- Attested in the 180 – 190.
- Attested in Roma, Latium, Italia in 180 – 190 (TNMM 473).
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:
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)
References
- Elissa Lissi-Carrona (1986) Il Mitreo dei 'Castra Peregrinorum' (S. Stephano Rotondo).
- Philippe Roy & Laurent Bricault (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l’Empire romain.
- Roger Pearse (2014) CIMRM Supplement - Mithraeum. S.Stephano Rotondo / Castra Peregrinorum, Rome.
Attestations
Altars to Cautes and Cautopates from 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.
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.
Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo
TNMM 17
The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.
