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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/64

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

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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Santa Prisca

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Capri

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.
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Oct 2023
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~ A modern syndexios ~

Oct 2023
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Hermes

Slave of a certain Macus Iulius Eunicus, Hermes dedicated a monument to Silvanus found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.
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Oct 2023
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Painted tauroctony from Rome

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.
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Oct 2023
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Inscription of Flavius Antistianus from Rome

This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.
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Oct 2023
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Fructus

He paid for the mosaic of the Mitreo del Sabazeo in Ostia.
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Oct 2023
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Marcus Porcius Verus

Procurator of the emperor, Porcius Verus erected a.
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Oct 2023
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Publius Aelius Vocco

Soldier of the XXII Legio Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz that erected an altar to Mithras in Sumelocenna.
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Oct 2023
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Fragments of altars from Gimmeldingen

These fragmentary monuments, one with an inscription, were found in the Gimmeldingen mithraeum.
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Oct 2023
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Altar to Luna from Gimmeldingen

This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Ruše

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.
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Oct 2023
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Oct 2023
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Cautes of Sisak

This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.
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Oct 2023
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Altar with Sol from Ptuj

This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.
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Oct 2023
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Base of Buda

This base was found in the 18th century and bears an inscription to the god Arimanius.
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Oct 2023
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Cautes of Transylvania

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Becker’s collection

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.
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Oct 2023
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Fragmented Mercury from Aquincum

Fragments of this limestone statue include the head and torso of Mercury, holding the caduceus in his left hand.
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