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Locus

Puteoli

Puteoli, the great commercial harbour of Roman Italy, preserves evidence of the cosmopolitan maritime environments through which Mithraic cults circulated across the Mediterranean world.

Inscriptions from Puteoli

Altar to Sol Invictus from Puteoli

Soli / invicto / gen(io) col(oniae) Cl(audius) Aurel(ius) / Rufinus / cum coniuge et / filio / d(onum) d(edit).
To Sol Invictus and the genius of the colony, Claudius Aurelius Rufinus, together with his wife and son, gave this gift.
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