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Emerita Augusta

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

Mithraic monuments of Emerita Augusta

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Inscriptions from Emerita Augusta

Cautopates from Casa del Mitreo of Mérida

Invicto sacrum C. Curius Avitus / Acci[o] Hedychro pa[tre].
Δημήτριος ἐποίει
Dedicated to the invincible. Caius Curius Avitus, Accius Hedychrus being Father.
Demetros made it.

Altar of Merida consecrated by Marcus Valerius Secundus

Ann[o] Col[oniae] CLXXX / aram genesis / Inuicti Mithrae / M[arcus] Val[erius] Secundus / fr[umentarius] Leg[ionis] VII Gem[inae] dono / ponendam merito curauit / G[aio] Accio Hedychro patre.
In the year 180 of the Colony, Marcus Valerius Secundus, frumentarius of the Legion VII Gemina, took care of placing the altar of the birth of the Invictus Mithras, as a due offering, being pater Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

Mercury of Mérida

Ann[o] col[oniae] CLXXX / invicto deo Mithrae / sacr[um] / G[aius] Accius Hedychrus / Pater / a[nimo] [libente] plosuit].
In the colony's 180th year. Consecrated to the invincible god Mithras. Gaius Accius Hedychrus, Father, willingly deposited this.

Altar by Caius Aemilius Superaius of Merida

Deo / Invicto / C[aius] Camilius / Superat[us] / a[nimo] l[ibens] p[osuit].
To the Unconquered God, Caius Camilius Superatus willingly and gladly placed [this].

Altar of Gaius Iulius from Mérida

Deo / Invicto / pro salute / Cai Iuli / […].
Al Dios Invicto. Por la salud de Gaius Iulius […].

Oceaunus of Mérida

G[aius] Acc[ius] Hedychrus / p[ater] patrum
Gaius Accius Hedychrus pater patrum

Altar of Mérida from Quintio

Inuicto Deo / Quintio Flaui / Baetici Conim/brig[ensis] ser[uus] / pro sa[lute] Coutii Lupi
Al Dios Invicto. El conimbrigense Quintio, esclavo de Flavius Baeticus, por la salud de Coutius Lupus.

Base of statue from Mérida

Caute / Tib[erius] Cl[audius] / Artemidoru[s] / p[ater?].
To Cautes, pater Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus

Altar by Hector Corneliorum of Mérida

... Invict[o Mithrae] / Hector Cornelior[um] / ex visu.
To the Invictus [Mithrae], Hector of the Cornelians, by a vision.

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