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Locus

Vesontio

Vesontio was an important urban centre of Roman Gaul, today Besançon.

Mithraic monuments of Vesontio

 

Non-Mithraic funerary inscription reconsidered at Vesontio

A funerary inscription from Besançon (ancient Vesontio) in Belgica, bearing the title mater sacrorum, but correctly excluded from the Mithraic corpus, as women were barred from Mithras sanctuaries.

CIMRM 935

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