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Mithras in Umbria

Umbria formed part of the central Italian heartland through which religious practices circulated between Rome and the northern provinces.

The material documented in Umbria reflects the movement of Mithraic cults through inland communication routes, urban settlements and regional exchange networks connected to central Italy. The province occupied an intermediary position within the Italian Peninsula.

Mithraic monuments of Umbria

 

Mitreo di Spoleto

The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.

CIMRM 673

 

Inscription on restauration of the Mitreo de Carsulae

Marble plaque with inscription of a sacerdos probatus to Sol and the god Invictus Mithras.

 

Inscription on the leonteum of Umbria

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

 

Mitreo di Carsulae

Epigraphic monuments reveal the presence of a Mithraeum in the ancient municiple of Carsulae, in Umbria.

 

Tauroctony from Piedimonte

This finely carved marble tauroctony from Interamna features an unusual series of altars and ritual vases surrounding the scene.

CIMRM 670

 

CIMRM 669

Fragment of marble relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.33 D. 0.04)' probably from Narni, but the exact find-spot is unknown.

CIMRM 669

 

CIMRM 671

According to a communication, made by Franz Cumont, the Museum of the Therms at Rome should have received in 1896 two new Mithrasmonuments, which should come from Narni.

CIMRM 671

 

CIMRM 672

Reperta in ruderibus Interamnae Lirinatis.

CIMRM 672

 

CIMRM 674

Altar of travertin (H. 1.02) with an inscription, found before the niche near B.

CIMRM 674

 

CIMRM 675

Cone-shaped piece of stone (H. 1.32) with a square hole on two third of its height.

CIMRM 675

 

CIMRM 676

Triangular prisma in cippolino marble (H. 0.77 Br. 0.23).

CIMRM 676

 

CIMRM 677

On the walls of the side-benches originally six figures had been painted (see fig. 192, C).

CIMRM 677

See all Mithraic monuments in Umbria

Places in Umbria

 

Carsulae

Carsulae was a Roman municipium in the region of Umbria, now preserved as an archaeological site, about 4 km north of the small town of San Gemini. Its foundation dates back to 220 BC with the construction of the Via Flaminia.

 

Interamna Nahars

Terni is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria, in Central Italy.

 

Spoletium

Spoleto is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines.

Inscriptions from Umbria

Inscription on restauration of the Mitreo de Carsulae

Soli et invicto [deo Mithrae]. / Ex permissu san[ctissimi] / ordinis dec[ur[ionum]] / Sex[tus] Egnatius Primitivus / sacerdos probatus sevir / Aug[ustalis] Casuenti et Carsulis, / q[uaestor] arcae Aug[ustalium] designat[us] / spelaeum vi motu terrae di/ruptum ex suo omni inpen/sa refecit.
To Sol and the invincible [god] [Mithras]. With the permission of the [most] sacred order of decurions, Sextus Egnatius Primitivus, approved priest [sacerdos probatus], Augustal serf at Casuentum et Carsulae, appointed quaestor of the Augustus treasury, has restored the crypt destroyed after an earthquake, entirely at his own expense.

Inscription on the leonteum of Umbria

Leonteum cum signo et cetero cultu exornatum / ex permissu sanctissimi ordinis ex pec[unia] sua / a solo fecerunt leones, consummati ab Egnatio Re/parato sacerdote legit[imo] et collatore, T[itus] Lepidius Ho/norinus Alexander et Amicus circ[itores] Aug[usti] n[ostri], L[ucii duo] Vicri[i] Severus / et Speratus, T[itus] Satronius Sabinianus, P[ublius] Vatinius Tustus, L[ucius] Tulius / Felix, L[ucius] Longinius Stachys faber de [sestertiis quinque] m[ilibus] n[ummum]. L[ocus] d[atus] d[ecurionum] d[ecreto].
The leonteum, adorned with a statue and other cultic elements, with the permission of the most sacred municipal ordo, the Lions erected it at their own expense from the ground, they who were initiated [consummati] by Egnatius Reparatus, legitimate priest [legitimus] and contributor: Titus Lepidius Honorinus, Alexander and Amicus, imperial [slaves], guardians, the two Lucii Vicrii, Severus and Speratus, Titus Satronius Sabinianus, Publius Vatinius Iustus, Lucius Tulius Felix, Lucius Longinius Stachys, craftsman, for a sum of 5,000 sesterces. Location given by decree of the decurions.

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