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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

Your search Britannia superior gave 258 results.

 
Monumentum

Bronze plaque of Sisak

This small bronze tabula ansata was dedicated to Mithras by two brothers, probably not related by blood.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Stixneusiedl

The Tauroctony of Stixneusiedl was found in ancient Pannonia Superior, currently Austria.

 
Monumentum

Feast scene with Mithras and Sol from Ladenburg

A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn during the sacred feast.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 832

Marble relief (H. 0.725 Br. 0.35 D. 0.225), found in Chester "built up in an adjoining hall "White Friars" in 1851".

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 851

From the other finds, for an extensive report of which we refer to the publication of Richmond-Gillam, 62ff, we mention here: 1) A number of vessels, which "were evidently part of the furnishings of the Mithraeum.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 864

Altar, found in 1822.

Syndexios

Publius Aelius Nigrinus

Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.

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Tiberius Claudius Balbilus

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

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Marcus Simplicius Simplex

Equus and Prefect.

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Aurelius Agathopus

Probably of Greek descent, he was active in Pannonia Superior by the 2nd century.

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Claudius Zenobius

Procurator of Tarraconensis, he dedicated a monument to the Invincible God, Isis and Serapis in Asturica Augusta.

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Aurelius Iustinianus

Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.

 
Locus

Carnuntum

Carnuntum was a Roman legionary fortress and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. After the 1st century, it was capital of the Pannonia Superior province. It also became a large city of 50,000 inhabitants.

 
Locus

Eboracum

Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. Two Roman emperors died in Eboracum: Septimius Severus in 211 AD, and Constantius Chlorus in 306 AD.

 
Locus

Pons Aelius

Pons Aelius, or Newcastle Roman Fort, was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, situated on the north bank of the River Tyne close to the centre of present-day Newcastle upon Tyn

 
Locus

Savaria

Szombathely is the oldest recorded city in Hungary. It was founded by the Romans in 45 AD under the name of Colonia Claudia Savariensum, and it was the capital of the Pannonia Superior province of the Roman Empire.

 
Textum

Life of Pompey

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

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