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Mithras in Lucania

Lucania connected inland southern Italy to the Tyrrhenian and Ionian maritime worlds through regional communication networks.

The material documented in Lucania reflects the circulation of Mithraic cults through provincial mobility and urban exchange across southern Italy. Although comparatively modest, the evidence contributes to understanding the spread of the cult beyond the principal urban centres of the peninsula.

Mithraic monuments of Lucania

Places in Lucania

 

Capreae

Capri is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy.

 

Grumentum

Grumentum was an ancient Roman city in the centre of Lucania, in what is now the comune of Grumento Nova, c.

 

Neapoli

Naples has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age. In the 2nd millennium BC, the Mycenaeans settled in the area. During the Roman period, Naples maintained its Greek language and customs, and greatly expanded.

Inscriptions from Lucania

Tauroctony from Naples

Omnipotenti Deo Mithrae Appius / Claudius Tarronius Dexter v[ir] c[larissimus] dicat.
To the almighty god Mithras, Appius Claudius Tarronius Dexter, senator, dedicates [this relief].

Altar from Grumentum

Soli Invicto / Mythrae T(itus) Fl(avius) / Saturninus / evoc(atus) Augg(ustorum) / nn(ostrorum).
To Sol Invictus Mithras. Titus Flavius Saturninus, evocatus of our emperors.
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