This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Enter
Support The New Mithraeum The New Mithraeum is an independent, non-profit project dedicated to Mithraic studies, ancient religions and classical culture. Developed and maintained independently since 2007, the site exists without advertising, paywalls or institutional funding. If you have found value in its articles, interviews, photographs or database, please consider supporting the project with a contribution. Every contribution helps keep The New Mithraeum open, free and alive. Thank you.
Support us →
Provincia

Mithras in Apulia

Apulia connected southern Italy to the Adriatic and eastern Mediterranean through maritime trade and regional urban networks.

The Mithraic evidence documented in Apulia reflects the province’s strategic position within the commercial and communication systems of southern Italy. Ports and urban centres contributed to the circulation of Mithraic cults between the Italian Peninsula and the eastern Mediterranean.

Mithraic monuments of Apulia

 

Altar of Pisignano

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

CIMRM 692

 

Mithraic altar from Venosa

This altar dedicated to Helios Mithras by a certain Sagaris was repurposed in the masonry of Palazzo Bagnoli, Venosa, Italy.

CIMRM 171

Places in Apulia

 

Venusia

Venosa is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area.

Inscriptions from Apulia

Mithraic altar from Venosa

Ἡλίῳ / Μήδρᾳ / ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας / Βρι[τ]λίου Πραι[λ]ίουντος Σχάρις οἰκο/νόμος.
To Sol Mithras. For the safety of [his master] Brittius Praesens, the manager Sagaris.

References

  • Vittoria Canciani (2022) Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy
Back to Top