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The New Mithraeum Database

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Filtering by Country: Italy gave 859 results.

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Bergomum (Bergamo)

Bergamo is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately 40 km northeast of Milan, and about 30 km from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km from Garda and Maggiore.

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Crescens

Administrator, probably a slave of Pater Alfius Severus, who dedicated the main altar of the Mitreo di Marino.

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Alfius Severus

Prominent owner or entrepreneur at Marino, known through the dedication made by his administrator Cresces.

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Felicissimus

Probably the Pater of the Mithraeum of Ostia which bears his name.

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Pausilypum (Napoli)

Pausilypum, modern Posillipo, overlooked the Bay of Naples and became renowned for its elite villas and coastal setting.

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Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.

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Marino (Marino)

Marino has been inhabited by Latin tribes since the 1st millennium BC. During the Roman Republic it was a summer resort for Roman patricians who built luxurious villas in the area.

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Pisa (Pisa)

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

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Praeneste (Palestrina)

Palestrina is a modern Italian city and comune with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about 35 kilometres east of Rome.

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Neapoli (Naples)

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.

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Angera (Angera)

Roman settlement on the southern shore of Lacus Verbanus (Lake Maggiore) in Transpadana, known for Mithraic inscriptions and a cave sanctuary traditionally identified as a Mithraeum.

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Soriano Nel Cimino (Soriano nel Cimino)

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

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Roma (Rome)

Archaeological evidence shows that the area around Rome has been inhabited since around 14,000 years ago. Excavations support the theory that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill, which was built over the area of the Roman Forum.

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Capreae (Capri)

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.

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Sentinum (Sassoferrato)

Sentinum was an ancient town located in the Marche region of Italy.

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Ostia (Ostia)

Ostia may have been Rome's first colony. According to legend, Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, destroyed the area and founded the colony. An inscription seems to confirm the foundation of the ancient castrum of Ostia in the 7th century BC.

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Spoletium (Spoleto)

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

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Locri Epizephyrii (Locri)

Epizephyrian Locris, also known as Locri Epizephyrii or simply Locri, was an ancient Greek city in Southern Italy.

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Carsulae (San Gemini)

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.

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Capua (Santa Maria Capua Vetere)

Capua is currently a city and comune in the province of Caserta, in the region of Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain.

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