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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/101

Acta diurna is our Mithraic social stream for keeping up to date with what is happening in The New Mithraeum.

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Jan 2022
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Column with inscription from Dura Europos

The inscription pays homage to the emperor, probably Caracalla, to Mithras, the fathers, the petitor and the syndexioi.
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Jan 2022
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Cossius Atinianus

Pater at Mithraeum Circo Massimo
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Jan 2022
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Main Tauroctony relief from Dura Europos

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.
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Jan 2022
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Marble slab with inscription from Mitreo Barberini

The inscription mentions the name of the donor, Yperanthes, of Persian origin.
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Jan 2022
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Altar from the Mitreo di Marino

The monument is engraved with an inscription by Cresces, the donor.
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Jan 2022
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Aurelius Bassinus

Guardian of the headquarters (principia) of the Peregrine camp.
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Jan 2022
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Gaius Rufius Euctatus

Pater Patrum at Vieu (Valromey)
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Jan 2022
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Tauroctony from Naples

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.
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Jan 2022
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Altars found near Santa Maria in Monticelli

These three small marble altars mention the 'magister of the first year' Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus and other members of the same community.
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Jan 2022
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Inscription found in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

As this short inscription indicates, Aemilio Epaphorodito was both Pater and priest of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres.
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Jan 2022
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Altar with inscription of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.
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Jan 2022
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Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale

The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.
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Jan 2022
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Altar of Inveresk with a griffin

This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.
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Jan 2022
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Altar with openwork of Inveresk

The altar of Sol from Inveresk, Scotland, was pierced, probably to illuminate part of the temple with a particular effect.
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Jan 2022
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Jan 2022
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Cautopates from Casa del Mitreo of Mérida

The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.
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Jan 2022
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Fragments of plaque from Circo Massimo

The inscription mentions the Pater Cossio Atiano.
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Jan 2022
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Marble slab with inscription of Aelius Urbanus

The Mithraic fellow P. Aelius Urbanus mentions that he built the sacred area of the Mithraeum Circo Massimo.
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