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Acta diurna

Daily Gazette/94

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

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Feb 2022
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Altar of Carnuntum by Sacidius Barbarus

This altar bears the oldest known Latin inscription to the god Mithras, written Mitrhe.
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Feb 2022
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Altar of Libella, Budapest

The dedicant of this altar to the god Arimanius was probably a slave who held the grade of Leo.
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Feb 2022
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Altar from Aquincum by Castinus

This altar to Mithras is dedicated by a certain Gaius Iulius Castinus, legate prefect of the emperors.
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Feb 2022
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Mithraeum of Aquincum V

The fifth mithraeum from Aquincum has been found in the house of a military tribune.
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Feb 2022
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Tauroctony from Mauls

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.
Original is now in the Ötzi Museum in Bozen, but still not part of an exhibition.

Lit.:
Günther Kaufmann: Das Mithras-Kultbild von Mauls. In: Der Schlern vol. 98, 7 (2024) p. 4-51
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Feb 2022
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Fresco Tauroctony of Mitreo di Marino

The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.
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Feb 2022
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Fresco of lions at Santa Prisca

The inscription is above a procession of men carrying animals, bread, a crater and other objects that appear to be in preparation for a feast.
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Feb 2022
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Fresco of procession of grades at Santa Prisca

Procession of figures dressed in different ways with inscriptions calling them by the seven grades of the Mithraic initiation cult.
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Feb 2022
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Marcus Valerius Maximus

Priest and astrologer of Milan.
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Feb 2022
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Incriptions to the gods of East and West

These two inscriptions by a certain Titus Martialius Candidus are dedicated to Cautes and Cautopates.
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Feb 2022
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Mithraic stele from Alba Iulia

Mithraic stele, from Alba Iulia, Romania, with inscription.
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Feb 2022
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Aurelius Agathopus

Probably of Greek descent, he was active in Pannonia Superior by the 2nd century.
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Feb 2022
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Titus Flavius Viator

Has dedicated the main cult relief of a temple in Carnuntum.
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Feb 2022
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Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.
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Feb 2022
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Slab of the astrologer Maximus of Milan

Marcus Valerius Maximus records in this inscription his knowledge of astrology as well as the name of his wife.
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Feb 2022
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Inscription by Propinquos of Carnuntum

On this slab, Gaius Iulius Propinquos indicates that he made a wall of the Mithraeum at his own expense.
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Feb 2022
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Mithraeum of Carnuntum III

Mithraeum III found in the west part of Petronell near Hintausried in August 1894 by J. Dell and C. Tragau.
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Feb 2022
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Feb 2022
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Lucius Agrius Calendius

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.
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Feb 2022
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Floor mosaic of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

It bears an inscription repeated on each side of the podia.
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