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  • Locus

    Apulum

    Apulum, now within Alba Iulia, was a Roman settlement first mentioned by the mathematician, astrologer and geographer Ptolemy. Its name comes from the Dacian Apoulon.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Euhemerus from Alba Iulia

    Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.

    TNMM663 – CIMRM 1975, 1976

    Deo invicto Mithr(a)e / Euhemerus ex voto / posuit.
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Nummius Amandus from Alba Iulia

    This altar dedicated to the Invincible Sol Mithra was found in 1878 in a cemetery in Alba Iulia.

    TNMM643 – CIMRM 1951

    Soli i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / C(aius) Nummius / Amandus / qui et / templum.
  • Monumentum

    Mithraic stele from Alba Iulia

    Mithraic stele, from Alba Iulia, Romania, with inscription.

    TNMM257 – CIMRM 1937

    D(eo) S(oli) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro salute inc/o{t}lumitate M(arci) Aur(eli) / Timotei et Aur(eli) M/aximi votum nun/cupavit solvitque / Euthyces eorum lib(ertus) / retulit.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief of Alba Iulia

    The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.

    TNMM346 – CIMRM 1938

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Alba Iulia with collared dog

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.

    TNMM664 – CIMRM 1972

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia

    In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

    TNMM665 – CIMRM 1942, 1943

    Invicto / Mythrae / Diosco/rus Marci (servus) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Mithras Petrogenitus of Alba Iulia

    Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

    TNMM213 – CIMRM 1991

  • Syndexios

    Αὐρήλιος Στέφανος

    Greek-speaking member of the community of Mithras followers from Apulum in the 2nd century.
  • Syndexios

    Titus Aurelius Marcus

    Veteran of the legion XIII and member of the Fabia tribe.
  • Notitia

    Del mitraísmo a la masonería. Una historia de las ideas

    Doce siglos separan el ocaso del mitraísmo romano del alba de la masonería. Doce siglos durante los cuales, los misterios de Mitra han permanecido más secretos que nunca.
  • Video

    Reconstructing the Roman Mystery Religion of Mithras

    Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.
  • Syndexios

    Hector Corneliorum

    Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta ’by means of a divine vision’, something unusual in Hispania.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief from Apulum

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.

    TNMM797 – CIMRM 1973

  • Monumentum

    Taurcotony of Secundinus

    This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.

    TNMM796 – CIMRM 1947, 1948

    ------] I(nvicto) M(ithrae) · SIGNVM / ------ Sec]VNDINVS · EX · VOTO · POS(uit).
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Naples

    The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

    TNMM219

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Chrestion from Alba Iulia

    In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

    TNMM666 – CIMRM 1945

    Invicto / Mythir/ae Chr/estion / v(otum) s(olvit).
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Sextus Syntrophus

    This altar to Invictus Mythra (sic) was found in 1867 in ancient Maros Portum, now Sighișoara, Romania.

    TNMM787 – CIMRM 1939

    Invict[o] / Mythra[e] / Sex(tus) Syntr/ofus v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens).
 
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