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Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Biljanovac

White marble tauroctony relief from the Mithraeum at Biljanovac, Moesia Superior, depicting the standard bull-slaying with torchbearers and Sol and Luna busts in the upper corners.

 
Monumentum

Mithras bust fragment from Biljanovac

White limestone fragment from the Mithraeum at Biljanovac, Moesia Superior, preserving the upper part of Mithras as bull-slayer in a sleeveless tunic.

 
Monumentum

Altar of Caius Iulius Valerius from Viminacium

Inscription from Viminacium, Moesia Superior, recording that Caius Iulius Valerius, veteran of Legio VI Claudia, restored a Mithraic sanctuary destroyed by lightning at his own expense.

 
Monumentum

Altar of Publius Aelius Valerianus from Viminacium

Inscription from Smederevo, Moesia Superior, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Publius Aelius Valerianus, vestiarius — a clothing-dealer or military garment officer.

 
Monumentum

Fragmentary dedication from Viminacium

Fragmentary inscription from Viminacium, Moesia Superior, preserving only the opening of a dedication to Mithrae Soli invicto ex voto.

 
Monumentum

Sacred repast relief from Viminacium

Small white marble relief from Kostolac, ancient Viminacium in Moesia Superior, depicting the sacred repast of Mithras and Sol: two reclining figures behind a three-legged table (tripod), in an arched niche.

 
Monumentum

Cautes relief from Viminacium

Right portion of a limestone Cautes relief from Kostolac, ancient Viminacium in Moesia Superior, depicting Cautes standing on an elevation in Oriental dress — not cross-legged — with a semicircle above him, probably Sol's nimbus.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of a decurio aedilis from Viminacium

Inscription from Viminacium, Moesia Superior, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by a decurio and aedilis of the Colonia Viminacii ex voto.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Viminacium

White marble tauroctony relief from Kostolac, ancient Viminacium in Moesia Superior, formerly walled into the Castle of George Branković at Smederevo, depicting the standard bull-slaying.

 
Locus

Viminacium (Požarevac)

Viminacium was a major city, military camp, and the capital of the Roman province of Moesia.

 
Locus

Guberevac (Guberevac)

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

Syndexios

Ision

An imperial slave and customs administrator of the Illyrian tax system, he financed and built a Mithraic temple in Moesia Superior.

 
Monumentum

Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac

This weathered marble fragment from Viminacium preserves part of a tauroctony with Luna, Cautopates, the serpent, and the dog.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Ision from Guberevac

In this monument, the imperial slave Ision claims the completion of a new temple to Mithras in Moesia.

Socius

Jelena Vasić

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