Gaius Victorius Victorinus
Centurion of the Legio VII Gemina Antoniana Pia Felix who erected the only known mithraeum at Lucus Augusti to date.
Vista del mitreo de Lugo integrado en el Museo Universitario A Domus do Mitreo
Nacho Illán
Granite altar dedicated to Mithras
Museo Universitario A Domus do Mitreo
Biography
of Gaius Victorius Victorinus
- Gaius Victorius Victorinus was a brother of the Mitreo de Lugo.
- Active c. 212 – 218 in Lucus Augusti, Tarraconensis (Hispania).
- He served in the Legio VII Gemina.
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Gaius Victorius Victorinus was a centurion of Legion VII who collected taxes in Lucus Augusti, present-day Lugo, Galicia, Spain. His domus, dated to the 1st century BC, housed the only mithraeum found in the region. However, in the 3rd century he was expropriated and his house was partially destroyed because it was located on the perimeter where the new walls of the city were to be built.
—The New Mithraeum (2022)
Victorinus sitúa en un lugar muy destacado a sus dos libertos, en igualdad con la statio, es decir, la institución de cuya custodia se encarga el destacamento comandado por el centurión. Las razones por las que honra la statio y a sus libertos, que no parecen guardar relación entre sí, nos son desconocidas. Es extraño que celebre en el espacio doméstico la statio y que vincule a sus libertos al espacio público de la statio.
—Mitra en Hispania (2020)
Mentions
Ara of the Mithraeum of Lugo
Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.
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