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Locus

Italica

Colonia Aelia Augusta Italica

Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania; its site is close to the town of Santiponce in the province of Seville, Spain.

Mithraic monuments of Italica

 

Tauroctony from Santiponce

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.

CIMRM 769

 

Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.

CIMRM 768

 

White marble relief with bull and fig-tree from Italica

A small four-sided white marble relief of uncertain Mithraic attribution, found at Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville), depicting a bull walking to the right on the front, a fig-tree on the back, five ears of wheat on the right side, and damaged vine tendrils with grapes on the left, which Vermaseren considers could equally be connected with the cult of Dionysos.

CIMRM 770

Inscriptions from Italica

Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce

Q[uintus] C[laudius] C.... / D[eo] i[nvicto] S[oli].
Q[uintus] C[laudius] C.... / D[eo] i[nvicto] S[oli].

References

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