Syndexios
Gaius Curius Avitus
Vista interior de la Casa del Mitreo
The New Mithraeum / Andreu Abuín (CC BY-NC-SA)
Cautopates of Mérida
The New Mithraeum / Olivier-Antoine Reÿnès (CC BY-NC-SA)
Biography of Gaius Curius Avitus
- Gaius Curius Avitus was a brother of the Casa del Mitreo de Mérida.
- Active c. 2nd – 3rd century in Emerita Augusta, Lusitania (Hispania).
Caius Curius Avitus financed the Cautopates with a dolphin found at the Casa del Mitreo in Merida when Accius Hedychrus was Pater. The sculpture was made by a greek named Demetros.
Mentions
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.