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Locus

Emona

Colonia Iulia Aemona

Emona or Aemona was a Roman castrum, located in the area where the navigable Nauportus River came closest to Castle Hill, serving the trade between the city’s settlers – colonists from the northern part of Roman Italy – and the rest of the empire.

Mithraic monuments of Emona

People attested in Emona

Blastia

Blastia

Inscriptions from Emona

Inscription to Mithras and Silvanus from Ljubljana

D[eo] i[invicto] M[ithrae] / Silvano Augusto / sac[rum]. Blastia / C[-?-] E[-?-] B[-?-] [---].

Dedicated to the invincible god Mithra, to Silvanus Augustus. Blastia[---].

References

Aleš Chalupa (2005) Hyenas or Lionesses? Mithraism and Women in the Religious World of the Late Antiquity
Aleš Chalupa (2023) Římský kult boha Mithry. Atlas lokalit a katalog nálezů I
Alfred Shenington Geden. Inscription to Mithras and Silvanus from Ljubljana in EDCS
Alison Griffith (2006) Completing the Picture: Women and the Female Principle in the Mithraic Cult
Laurent Bricault & Philippe Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l’Empire romain
Vittoria Canciani (2022) Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy

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