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Susa (Shush)

Susa was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran.

Monumentum

Mithraic inscription from Anazarbus

This dedicatory inscription by Aurelius Seleucus, found in Cilicia, aligns with Plutarch’s account of Cilician pirates performing foreign sacrifices and secret rites of Mithras.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Reșca

Tauroctony relief fragment with torchbearer and scene of Mithras’ rockbirth from Romula, Romania.

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Romula (Reșca)

Romula or Malva was an ancient city in Roman Dacia, later the village of Reşca, Dobrosloveni Commune, Olt County, Romania.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Ottaviano Zeno

In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

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Pontiae (Ponza)

The Pontiae islands, including modern Ponza, formed part of the Roman maritime landscape of Latium and preserve one of the most remarkable Mithraic sanctuaries of Roman Italy, renowned for its rare stucco zodiac and astral symbolism.

Monumentum

Mitreo di Ponza

This Mithraic shrine on the island of Ponza is renowned for its exceptional stucco zodiac and astral symbolism linked to Roman Mithaism.

Regio

Britannia

Roman Britannia preserves one of the most strongly militarised corpora of Mithraic evidence in the western empire.

Regio

Hispania

Roman Hispania preserves a relatively modest but strongly urban body of Mithraic evidence, centred above all on Mérida.

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Secia (Jabal al-Druze)

Jabal al-Druze, officially Jabal al-Arab, is an elevated volcanic region in the As-Suwayda Governorate of southern Syria.

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Alexandria (Alexandria)

Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in April 331 BC as one of his many city foundations. After he captured the Egyptian Satrapy from the Persians, Alexander wanted to build a large Greek city on Egypt’s coast that would bear his name.

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Ruše (Ruše)

Ruše is a small town in northeastern Slovenia.

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Septeuil (Septeuil)

Septeuil has been known in Mithriacism since 1984, when a sanctuary dedicated to Mithras was discovered in the 4th century. It was located in a spring sanctuary (nymphaeum) of the 1st century.

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Divio (Dijon)

Dijon is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period.

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Anazarbus (Dilekkaya)

Anazarbus was an ancient Cilician city. Under the late Roman Empire, it was the capital of Cilicia Secunda.

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Zuccabar (Khemis Miliana)

Zuccabar was an ancient town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.

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Pausilypon (Posillipo)

Posillipo is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples.

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Grumentum (Grumento Nova)

Grumentum was an ancient Roman city in the centre of Lucania, in what is now the comune of Grumento Nova, c.

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Termini Himeraeae (Termini Imerese)

Termini Imerese is a town of the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, in Italy.

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Madauros (M'Daourouch (مداوروش))

Madauros was a Roman-Berber city in Numidia, in present-day Algeria, renowned in antiquity as an important intellectual and educational centre of Roman North Africa.

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