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Angera

Roman settlement on the southern shore of Lacus Verbanus (Lake Maggiore) in Transpadana, known for Mithraic inscriptions and a cave sanctuary traditionally identified as a Mithraeum.

Mithraic monuments of Angera

 

Mitreo di Angera

The existence of a mithraeum in the "tana del lupo", a natural cave in the castle of Angera, has been assumed since the 19th century, following the discovery of two mithraic inscriptions in the town.

CIMRM 716

 

Inscription of two lions from Angera

This marble base found in Angera in 1868 bears the inscription of two people who reached the degree of Leo.

CIMRM 718

 

Inscription of Valerianus Petalus

In this inscription, found in Angera in Lombardy, Mithras is referred to by the unicum 'adiutor'.

CIMRM 717

 

Six decorated marble columns from the Angera Mithraeum

Six small marble columns found in the Mithraeum at Angera in northern Italy: two plain-fluted, two carved with palm stems and lion's and Gorgon's heads alternating on the upper ledge, and two with serpentine coils and griffins flanking an amphora.

CIMRM 719

 

Marble altar base with mythological reliefs from the Angera Mithraeum

A white marble altar base from the Mithraeum at Angera, decorated with palmettes, eagles carrying a festoon and rosettes on the front, dolphins on the reverse, and on each side mythological scenes of Jupiter and Neptune combatting Giants with snake-feet.

CIMRM 720

 

Inscription of M. Calvius Satullio from the Angera Mithraeum

An inscription on the altar base from the Mithraeum at Angera, recording that M. Calvius Satullio dedicated a base to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on behalf of the inhabitants of the vicus Sebuinus.

CIMRM 721

Inscriptions from Angera

Inscription of two lions from Angera

Cautopati sac[r[um]] / M[arcus] Status Nig[er] / VI vir aug[ustalis] c[reatus] d[ecreto] d[ecurionum] [M[ediolanensium]] / leg[atus?] dend[rophorum] c[oloniae] A[ureliae?] A[ugustae?] M[ediolanii] / et C[aius] Valerius lulia[nus?] / leones leg[ati?] v[otum] s[olverunt] l[ibentes] m[erito].
Consecrated to Cautopates. Marcus Statius Niger, sevir Augustalis appointed by a decree of the town council and representative of the dendrophoroi of the colonia Aurelia Augusta Mediolanensium, and Caius Valerius Iulianus, both leones and representatives, fulfilled their vow willingly and deservedly.

Inscription of Valerianus Petalus

D[eo] S[oli] i[nvicto] M[ithrae] / adiutor[i] / Valerian[us] / Petalus v[otum] [s[olvit]].
To the invincible god Sol Mithras protector [adiutor], Valerianus Petalus [has] fulfilled his vow.

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