The province of Lugdunensis preserves evidence connected to some of the principal communication routes and urban environments of Roman Gaul. The documented material illustrates the implantation of Mithraic cults within civic, commercial and administrative contexts across the Gallic interior.
People attested in Lugdunensis
Places in Lugdunensis
Arverni
Arverni refers to the territory of the Arverni in central Gaul, centred on the region of modern Clermont-Ferrand.
Divio
Dijon is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period.
Dyo
Dyo is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Juliomagus
Juliomagus, modern Angers, preserves evidence of Mithraic activity within the urban and administrative landscape of Roman northwestern Gaul.
Les Bolards
Nuits-Saint-Georges is a commune in the arrondissement of Beaune of the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France.
Lugdunum
Lugdunum, currently Lyon, France, was the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. The city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus. Two emperors, Claudius and Caracalla, were born in Lugdunum.
Septeuil
Septeuil has been known in Mithriacism since 1984, when a sanctuary dedicated to Mithras was discovered in the 4th century. It was located in a spring sanctuary (nymphaeum) of the 1st century.
Venetonimagus
Venetonimagus, now Vieu, part of the town of Valromey, would have been called Venetonimagus or Venetonimago in Gallo-Roman times.
Inscriptions from Lugdunensis
Cautes from Les Bolards
Inscription of Secundinus of Lyon
Funerary urn of Chyndonax
Goblet from Angers
]s Genialis ciues Ambian[in]us [or Ambian[ic]us] exuoto d[edit
frat]ribus, omni loco, [ N]ama!.
Inscription of Pylades from Angers
Mithrae Pylades
Felicis Aug(usti) ser(ui)
Agathangeliani (seruus)
u(otum) s(oluit) l(ibens) m(erito).
