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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/65

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 Split

This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Vratnitsa

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.
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Oct 2023
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Larger altars and small finds from Jajce

Three larger altars and other finds from the Mithraeum of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Oct 2023
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Altars of Jajce

Three small limestone altars were found in the Jajce Mithraeum, one of which bears the inscription ’Invicto’.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Jajce

The relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Jajce Mithraeum is walled into the cult niche and surmounted by a roof.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Golubić

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in Golubić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near a cementery.
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Oct 2023
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~ A modern syndexios ~

Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Ghighen

Vermaseren noted in his Corpus that he had been informed of a fragmented relief of Mithras killing the bull in "the museum at Ghighen".
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Oct 2023
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Materninius Faustinus

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.
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Oct 2023
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Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

This sandstone altar was dedicated to the god Invictus by a certain Faustinus from Gimmeldingen.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Gimmeldingen

This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.
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Oct 2023
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Mithras-inscription of Speyer

This monument with an inscription to the god Sol Mithras was found in front of the cathedral of Speyer during some sewer works.
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Oct 2023
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Petrogeny from Bingen

This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.
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Oct 2023
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Luna in biga of Boulogne

This monument is too fragmentary to recod it definitely as a Mithras-monument.
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Oct 2023
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Apronianus

Public treasurer known for several inscriptions to Mithras found in San Silvestro.
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Oct 2023
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Inscription of Apronianus of Nesce

The dedicator of this monument is also known for having made a tauroctonic relief in Nesce.
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Oct 2023
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Aion from Luxor

This statuette was bought by A. Wiedemann in Luxor in 1882 from a man from Kus.
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Oct 2023
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Aion of Porsione

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.
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Oct 2023
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Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.
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