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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/41

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

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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 198

In te 'm i d dIe of the sanctuary: a) Fragm.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 197

Of two persons only the heads and parts of the white tunica are visible.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 196

The next two scenes have become indistinguishable.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 195

This fresco, found in the Santa Capua Vetere Mithraeum, depicts what seems to be an initiate falling forward because someone is pressing down on his shoulders.
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Dec 2024
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Initiation scene from Capua Vetere

Fresco depicting an initiation scene from the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 192

Two persons standing behind each other.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 190

Minto, fig.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 189

A person in red attire.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 183

Fresco (H. 1.08 Br. 0.95) on the South wall above the beginning of the podium.
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Dec 2024
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Dec 2024
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Greek dedication to Mithras from Aenaria

This small Greek dedication from the island of Aenaria invokes Helios Mithras under the epithet “unconquered”.
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Dec 2024
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Altar to Sol Invictus from Puteoli

This marble dedication from Puteoli was offered to Sol Invictus and the genius of the colony by Claudius Aurelius Rufinus together with his wife and son.
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Dec 2024
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Tauroctony relief from Puteoli

This lost Mithraic relief, formerly kept near the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Naples, was probably a large tauroctony associated with the area of Puteoli or Pausilypon.
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Dec 2024
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Mithraic altar from Venosa

This altar dedicated to Helios Mithras by a certain Sagaris was repurposed in the masonry of Palazzo Bagnoli, Venosa, Italy.
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Dec 2024
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Altar from Grumentum

This altar from Grumentum in Lucania was dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Titus Flavius Saturninus, an evocatus in imperial service.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 167

This small inscription from Termini Himeraeae in Sicily was dedicated to Sol Invictus as protector of the emperor Antoninus Augustus.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 159

At Volubilis not far from the fountain, in which the aquaduct of Fertassa emptied itself, two inscriptions dedicated to Mithras have been found.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 158

This fragmentary tauroctony relief from Timziouin near Saïda depicts Mithras slaying the bull within a cave-like frame, accompanied by the raven, serpent, scorpion, and Cautopates.
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Dec 2024
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Inscription to Sol Invictus from Zuccabar

This fragmentary inscription from Zuccabar, reused in the wall of the Sidi Abd-el-Kader mosque at Affreville, preserves a dedication to Sol Invictus.
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Dec 2024
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CIMRM 156

Inscription on a white marble plate.
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