 The members of the community are introduced by the phrase 'Jupiter Optimus Maximus Dolichenus chose the following to serve him'.Of the 260 devotees named in votive inscriptions, 97 are for soldiers, and it thus seems that the cult had a particular attraction for members of the military.In from Ostia Antica, an inscription from around 186 AD, an entire naval unit a detachment of the fleet at Misenum is named as dedicator.