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Caius Accius Hedychrus
Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta
Vista interior de la Casa del Mitreo
Altar by Marcus Valerius Secundus of Merida
The New Mithraeum / Olivier-Antoine Reÿnès (CC BY-SA)
Cautopates of Mérida
The New Mithraeum / Olivier-Antoine Reÿnès (CC BY-NC-SA)
Mercury of Merida
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-NC-SA)
Oceanus of Merida
Tintern (CC BY-NC)
Biography
- Caius Accius Hedychrus was a Pater at the Casa del Mitreo de Mérida.
- Active circa 155 in Emerita Augusta, Lusitania (Hispania).
The pater Gaius Accius Hedychrus was promoted to the higher rank of pater patrum, as indicated by the sculpture of Oceanus, which must be later than the rest of the monuments found in the Great Mithraeum of Emerita, with his name inscribed on it.
He was probably a freedman of the gens Accii.His community
He was probably a freedman of the gens Accii.
His community
at Casa del Mitreo de Mérida
Mentioned in
Altar of Merida consecrated by Marcus Valerius Secundus
This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.
Ann(o) Col(oniae) CLXXX / aram genesis / Inuicti Mithrae / M(arcus) Val(erius) Secundus / fr(umentarius) Leg(ionis) VII Gem(inae) dono / ponendam merito curauit / G(aio) Accio Hedychro patre
In the year 180 of the Colony, Marcus Valerius Secundus, frumentarius of the Legion VII Gemina, took care of placing the altar of the birth of the Invictus Mithras, as a due offering, being pater Gaius Accius Hedychrus
Cautopates from Casa del Mitreo of Mérida
The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.
Invicto sacrum C. Curius Avitus / Acci(o) Hedychro pa(tre).
Δημήτριος ἐποίει
Δημήτριος ἐποίει
Dedicated to the invincible. Caius Curius Avitus, Accius Hedychrus being Father.
Demetros made it.
Demetros made it.
Mercury of Mérida
The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.
Ann(o) col(oniae) CLXXX / invicto deo Mithrae / sacr(um) / G(aius) Accius Hedychrus / Pater / a(nimo) (libente) plosuit).
In the colony's 180th year. Consecrated to the invincible god Mithras. Gaius Accius Hedychrus, Father, willingly deposited this.
Oceaunus of Mérida
The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.
G(aius) Acc(ius) Hedychrus / p(ater) patrum
Gaius Accius Hedychrus pater patrum
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