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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/67

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
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony sculpture of Villa Borghese

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull the belongs to the Louvre museum is currently exposed in Varsovia.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Villa Borghese

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
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Oct 2023
Socius
~There in fact the wise mares brought me~
There in fact the wise mares brought me
Oct 2023
Syndexios

Marcellinus

Marcellinus was an antistes who reached the grade of Leo in Rome.
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Oct 2023
Syndexios

Dioscorus

Dioscorus is a freedman from the Greek-speaking part of the Empire who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.
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Oct 2023
Syndexios

Aelius Maximus

Aelius Maximus identifies himself as a soldier of the Legio V Macedonica on a relief found in ancient Potaissa.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Aelius Maximus of Turda

This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Aurelios Stephanos from Sibiu

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.
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Oct 2023
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Altar of Chrestion from Alba Iulia

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.
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Oct 2023
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Altar of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Tauroctony from Alba Iulia with collared dog

This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.
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Oct 2023
Syndexios

Euhemerus

Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Euhemerus from Alba Iulia

Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.
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Oct 2023
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Tauroctony from Pleven

This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.
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Oct 2023
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Inscription to Tourmasgade from Dura Europos

This inscription by a certain Ioulianos, found at the entrance to the Dolichenum at Dura Europos, bears an inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras et Tourmasgade.
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Oct 2023
Syndexios

Sabinianus

A comrade of Charitinus, he was a freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
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Oct 2023
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Charitinus

Freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
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Oct 2023
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Altar of Poreč

This stone altar found in Poreč was dedicated by two freedmen to the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
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Oct 2023
Syndexios

Marcus Aurelius Rufinus

Roman veteran stationed on the island of Andros, where he built a temple to Mithras.
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Oct 2023
NewMonumentum

Inscription by Valentinus Secundionis

This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.
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