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Provincia

Moesia superior

Moesia superior preserves frontier evidence shaped by the military infrastructure and circulation networks of the middle Danube.

Provincia

Dalmatia

Dalmatia connected the Adriatic world to the Balkan interior through maritime routes, military mobility and provincial urban networks.

Provincia

Pannonia superior

Pannonia superior preserves one of the richest frontier corpora of Mithraic evidence along the middle Danube.

Provincia

Rhaetia

Rhaetia occupied a strategic frontier position between the Alps, the upper Danube and northern Italy where Mithraic cults circulated through military networks.

Provincia

Alpes Graiae

The high mountain routes of Alpes Graiae formed part of the Alpine corridors connecting Italy, Gaul and the northwestern provinces.

Syndexios

Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

One of the most eminent representatives of late antique pagan religiosity, combining high civic authority with deep initiation into multiple mystery traditions, including the cult of Mithras.

Monumentum

Inscription of Pylades from Angers

This marble plaque from Iuliomagus, Roman Angers, bears a rare dedication to Mithras by Pylades, a slave of an imperial slave connected to the Roman administration in Gaul.

Monumentum

Mithréum d’Angers

The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

Syndexios

Pylades

A vicarius of the imperial household dedicated to Mithras in Roman Angers.

Socius

Israel Campos

Scholar in Mithraic Studies

Regio

Thracia

Thracia reflects the circulation of Mithraic cults through the military, urban and maritime networks linking the Balkans, the Danube and the northern Aegean world.

Regio

Mauretania

Mauretania preserves western North African evidence linked to urban and maritime networks of the Roman empire.

Regio

Regnum Bospori

The Bosporan Kingdom preserves evidence from one of the northernmost horizons of Mithraic diffusion in the ancient world.

Regio

Rhaetia

Raetia preserves Mithraic evidence connected to Alpine frontier systems and military mobility.

Monumentum

Tauroctony stele from Nicopolis ad Istrum

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Timziouin

This fragmentary tauroctony relief from Timziouin near Saïda depicts Mithras slaying the bull within a cave-like frame, accompanied by the raven, serpent, scorpion, and Cautopates.

Regio

Africa

The evidence from Roman Africa reflects the implantation of Mithraic cults within prosperous urban centres of the western Mediterranean.

Monumentum

Tauroctony in the British Museum

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

Monumentum

Altar to Sol Invictus from Puteoli

This marble dedication from Puteoli was offered to Sol Invictus and the genius of the colony by Claudius Aurelius Rufinus together with his wife and son.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Puteoli

This lost Mithraic relief, formerly kept near the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Naples, was probably a large tauroctony associated with the area of Puteoli or Pausilypon.

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