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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.

Mithraic monuments of Puteoli

 

Altar to Sol Invictus from Puteoli

This marble dedication from Puteoli was offered to Sol Invictus and the genius of the colony by Claudius Aurelius Rufinus together with his wife and son.

CIMRM 177

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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