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Provincia

Mithras in Etruria

Etruria formed part of the cultural and religious heartland of central Italy closely connected to Rome and the Tyrrhenian world.

The Mithraic evidence documented in Etruria reflects the circulation of cults through urban centres, elite environments and communication networks linking the region to Rome and northern Italy. The province contributed to the broader religious landscape of central Roman Italy.

Mithraic monuments of Etruria

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Places in Etruria

 

Arretium

Arezzo is a city and comune in Italy and the capital of the province of the same name located in Tuscany.

 

Caere

Caere is the Latin name given by the Romans to one of the larger cities of southern Etruria, modern Cerveteri, some 50-60 kilometres north-west of Rome.

 

Cosa

Cosa was an ancient Roman city near the present Ansedonia in southwestern Tuscany, Italy.

 

Florentia

Florentia was a Roman city in the Arno valley from which Florence originated.

 

Luna

Carrara is a town and comune in Tuscany, in northern Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there.

 

Pisa

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

 

Rusellae

Rusellae was an important ancient town of Etruria, Italy, which survived until the Middle Ages before being abandoned.

 

Soriano Nel Cimino

Soriano nel Cimino is a town and comune in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, central Italy.

 

Sutrium

Sutri is an Ancient town, modern comune and former bishopric in the province of Viterbo, about 50 kilometres from Rome and about 30 kilometres south of Viterbo. The modern comune of Sutri has a few more than 5,000 inhabitants.

 

Torrita

Torrita di Siena is a comune in the Province of Siena in the Italian region of Tuscany, located about 80 kilometres southeast of Florence and about 40 km southeast of Siena.

 

Vicus Matrini

San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore is a mountain hill town in the province of Pescara, part of the Abruzzo region in central Italy.

 

Visentium

Visentium was the Latin name of one of the minor Etruscan cities.

Inscriptions from Etruria

Heliodromus inscription of Cerveteri

[Deo Soli Invic]/[to Mi]thrae / [Mem]mius Pla/cidus helio/dromus sacr/atus a Curtio / Iuvenale patre / votum [solvit] / [libens merito].
To the Invincible Sun God Mithras, Memmius Placidus, Heliodromus, initiated by Curtius Juvenalis, Pater, fulfilled his vow willingly and deservedly.

Statue of Cautes dedicated by Hymnus

Hymnu/s inbic/to.
Hymnus to the Invincible.
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