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Filtering by Country: Portugal gave 11 results.

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Pax Iulia (Beja)

Pax Iulia, modern Beja, developed into one of the principal urban centres of southern Lusitania.

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Aveiro (Aveiro)

The region around modern Aveiro has yielded archaeological material linked to the western Iberian provinces.

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Caetobriga (Setúbal)

Caetobriga, now Setúbal of Proto-Celtic *Caetobrix, became a Turdetani settlement which passed under Roman rule. In the time of Al-Andalus the city was known as Shaṭūbar.

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Olisipo (Lisbon)

Olisipo was the Roman city corresponding to modern Lisbon.

Syndexios

Messius Artemidorus

Magister of a Bracaran sodalicium associated with the cult of Mithras in Roman Lusitania.

Monumentum

Dedication to Mithras from Pax Iulia

Marble inscription recording the construction of a Mithraic meeting place and the donation of a crater by Titus Flavius Artemidorus.

Monumentum

Imperial inscription dedicated to Sol Aeternus and Luna from Lisbon, under Septimius Severus

A large inscription from Olisipo (modern Lisbon), recording a dedication to the Eternal Sol and Luna for the perpetuity of the empire and the welfare of Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta, executed under the supervision of Drusus Valerius Coelianus and others, dated to the Severan period…

Monumentum

Cippus of Cestius Acidius Perennis dedicated to Sol and Luna from Lisbon

A great cippus from Olisipo (modern Lisbon), recording a dedication to Sol and Luna by Cestius Acidius Perennis, legate of the Emperor and propraetor of the province of Lusitania.

Monumentum

Statue once interpreted as Mithras from Aveiro

Bearded nude statue formerly claimed to be Mithraic but later rejected as a seventeenth-century sculpture unrelated to the cult.

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Triptic of Tróia

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

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Mitreo de Tróia

García y Bellido proposed the existence of a mithraeum in a narrow, elongated room where the Troia mithraic relief was found.

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