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

Marcus Limbricius Polides

Decurion and member of the same college as Aemilius Chrysanthus.

Altar of Aemilius Chrysanthus to the Invincible SolEDCS

Biography
of Marcus Limbricius Polides

  • Marcus Limbricius Polides 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 479).

TNMP 96

To Sol invincible, Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus, freedman of the two Marcus, master of the first year and Marcus Limbricius Polides, decurion and member of his college, at their own expense, offered a gift.

Attestations

Altar of Aemilius Chrysanthus to the Invincible Sol

TNMM 479

Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.

Soli / invicto / M. Aemilius / M[arcorum duorum] l[ibertus] Chrysanthus / mag[ister] anni primi et / M. Limbricius Polides / dec[urio] et sodalicio eius / d[e] [suo] d[onum] d[ederunt].
To Sol invincible, Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus, freedman of the two Marcus, master of the first year and Marcus Limbricius Polides, decurion and member of his college, at their own expense, offered a gift.
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