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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/62

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

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Nov 2023
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Tauroctony from Circo Massimo

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.
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Nov 2023
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Iustus

Solder of the Legio II Augusta who dedicated a monument to Mithras Invictus in Isca Augusta.
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Nov 2023
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Inscripton of Justus from Caerleon

This oolite base, dedicated to the invincible Mithras, was found in the baths of the Villa de Caerleon, Walles.
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Nov 2023
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Cippus of Antoninus from Ostia

This small white marble cippus bears an inscription of a certain Pater Antoninus to Cautes.
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Nov 2023
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Aelius Sabinus

Centurion who engraved a plaque to Sol for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.
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Nov 2023
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Inscription of Sabinus from San Clemente

This marble slab, found in the Mithraeum of San Clemente, bears an inscription by a certain Sabinus for the health of a father and his sons.
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Nov 2023
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Bust of Sol from San Clemente

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.
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Nov 2023
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Fragment of a Tauroctony from Ostia

This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.
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Nov 2023
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Prostrate figure fresco from Capua Vetere

Representation of a person lying prostrate on the ground between two other walking figures on the Mitreo of Santa Capua Vetere.
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Nov 2023
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Aion fresco of Caputa Vetere

Minto has claimed that the time god Aion was painted on the corner of the north wall of the Mitreo de Santa Capua Vetere.
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Nov 2023
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Plaque of Astorga

This slab dedicated to the invincible god, Serapis and Isis by Claudius Zenobius was found in 1967 in the walls of the city of Astorga, Spain.
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Nov 2023
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Altar from Málaga

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.
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Nov 2023
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Altars of Dura Europos

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.
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Nov 2023
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~ A modern syndexios ~

Nov 2023
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Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.
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Nov 2023
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Altar to Semele from Cologne

This sandstone altar found in Cologne bears an inscription to the goddess Semele and her sisters.
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Nov 2023
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Petrogeny with a sheaf of wheat of Cologne

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.
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Nov 2023
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Head of Mithras from Cologne

This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.
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Nov 2023
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Exsochos

Gladiator to whom his companions Cimber and Pietas erected a monument in Colonia, Germania.
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