Syndexios
Protas
Slave who dedicated an altar to Nabarze in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa.
Plan of the sanctuary with the position of the small finds
Csaba Szabó after Király 1886
Column to Nabarze of Protas.
Ortolf Harl 2010
Biography
of Protas
- Protas was a brother of the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa.
- Active late 2nd – early 3rd century in Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, Dacia superior (Dacia).
TNMP 208
Protas was the slave assistant to the imperial treasurer, the slave Ampliatus. He dedicated an altar in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, to the god Nabarze for the salvation of Ampliatus and his people.
Mentions
Column to Nabarze of Protas
This column found in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa bears an inscription to Nabarze instead of Mithras.
TNMM 631
Nabarze / deo / pro sal(ute) Ampliati / Aug(usti) n(ostri) disp(ensatoris) et / sua suorumq(ue) / omnium / Protas vikar(ius) / eius.
To the god Nabarze, for the salvation of Ampliatus, (slave) treasurer to our emperor, and for himself and all his people, Protas, his deputy.