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Mithras in Moesia superior

Moesia superior preserves frontier evidence shaped by the military infrastructure and circulation networks of the middle Danube.

The material documented in Moesia superior illustrates the importance of the province within the Danubian military zone of the Roman empire. Mithraic cults circulated through legionary communities, urban centres and strategic routes linking the Balkans to the wider frontier world.

Mithraic monuments of Moesia superior

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People attested in Moesia superior

Ision

Ision
(2nd century)

Places in Moesia superior

 

Almus

Almus occupied a strategic position on the southern bank of the Danube in western Moesia.

 

Biljanovac

Ancient site in Moesia Superior, north-east of Kumanovo, where the remains of a Mithraic sanctuary were discovered together with several marble reliefs, altars and cult objects.

 

Civitas Montanensium

Civitas Montanensium developed around the important Roman settlement at modern Montana in Bulgaria.

 

Cladova

Kladovo lies near the Iron Gates region and formed part of the Danubian frontier landscape.

 

Dražinovići

The locality of Dražinovići is associated with archaeological remains from the central Balkan region.

 

Drmno

Drmno lies near the important Roman site of Viminacium on the Danube frontier.

 

Guberevac

Guberevac is a village in the municipality of Sopot, Serbia.

 

Guberevci

The locality of Guberevci belongs to the inland communications zone of Roman Moesia Superior.

 

Janjevo

Janjevo formed part of the mining and settlement landscape of the central Balkans.

 

Jassen

The locality of Jassen belongs to the inland communications landscape of the Balkan provinces.

 

Kadine-Most

Kadine-Most lies within the central Balkan region historically connected with Roman Moesia.

 

Klečovac

The locality of Klečovac is associated with archaeological material from the Danubian hinterland.

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Inscriptions from Moesia superior

Altar of Klechovtse

[D[eo] i[nvicto]] M[ithrae] / fano mag[no] / pro sal[ute] Aug[g[ustorum]] n[ostrorum] / Apollonides / eorund[em] vect[igalis] Il/lyr[ici] ser[vus] [contra]sc[riptor] st[ationis] / Lamud[---] quam vove/rat [contra]sc[riptor] sta[tionis] Vizi[ani] // A[pollo]n[ides]s Viz[iani] // Gentia/no et / Basso [co[n]s[ulibus]].
To the invincible god Mithras, a great temple, for the safety of our Agustus Apollonides, the servant of Illyricum, the contrascriptor of the garrison of those tributaries, Lamud--- which he had vowed, the contrary of the station of Viziani.

Inscription of Ision from Guberevac

Invicto deo / Ision Caes[aris] n[ostri] ser[vus] / vil[icus] vectigal[is] Il/lyr[ici] templ[um] omn[i] / re instruct[um] a / solo p[ecunia] s[ua] f[aciendum] c[uravit].
To the invincible god, Ision, a slave of our emperor and steward of the taxes of Illyricum, saw to it that the temple, complete with all its furnishings, was built from the ground up at his own expense.
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