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Mithras in Aquitania

In Aquitania, Mithraic evidence reflects the western expansion of the cult beyond the principal Rhine and Rhône corridors.

The material documented in Aquitania remains modest in scale but geographically important for understanding the spread of Mithraic cults into southwestern Gaul. Urban centres and regional routes connected the province to Atlantic, Iberian and inland Gallic networks through which religious practices circulated.

Mithraic monuments of Aquitania

People attested in Aquitania

Sextus Vervicius Eutyches

Sextus Vervicius Eutyches
(early 3rd century)

Places in Aquitania

 

Burdigala

Around 300 BC, Burdigala was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci. The Romans conquered the area in 60 BC and made Burdigala the capital of the Roman province of Aquitania during the reign of Emperor Vespasian.

 

Elusa

Eauze is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

 

Elusatium

Elusatium refers to the territory associated with the Elusates in Roman Aquitania.

 

Soulan

Soulan is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.

Inscriptions from Aquitania

Inscriptions of Eauze

Deo Invict[o] / Sex[tus] Vervic[ius] / Eutyches / vestiar[ius] civ[is] / Trev[er] pater.

V/ervi/cius Eutyc/hes pa/ter.
To the Unconquered God, Sextus Vervicius Eutyches, textile merchant, citizen of Treveri, and Father.

Vervicius Eutyches, Pater.

Forged altar from Soulan

Deo Mitr(ae) Faustus, Modesta v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).
To the god Mithras, Faustus and Modesta willingly and deservedly fulfilled their vow.
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