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Locus

Neapoli

Naples has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age. In the 2nd millennium BC, the Mycenaeans settled in the area. During the Roman period, Naples maintained its Greek language and customs, and greatly expanded.

Mithraic monuments of Neapoli

 

Mithraeum of Naples

The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

 

Tauroctony of Naples

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

CIMRM 174

Inscriptions of Neapoli

Omnipotenti Deo Mithrae Appius / Claudius Tarronius Dexter v(ir) c(larissimus) dicat.
To the almighty god Mithras, Appius Claudius Tarronius Dexter, senator, dedicates (this relief).

Tauroctony of Naples

References

  • Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby. Tauroctony of Naples in EDCS
  • Vittoria Canciani (2022) Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy