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Inscription on the restoration of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos

Antonius Valentinus, centurio, made this plaque for the salut des empereurs Septimus Severus and Marcus Aurelius.

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Altar dedicated by Pater Patrum Augentius

This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.

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Mitreo delle Sette Porte

The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.

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Temple of Garni

After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

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Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo

The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

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Mithraeum of the Coloured Marble

The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

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Mitreo degli Animali

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

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Altar of Titullus from Rudchester

This sandstone altar from the Mithraeum of Vindobala (modern Rudchester) preserves a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by P. Aelius Titullus, prefect of a cohort.

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Inscription of L. Sentius Castus of the Sixth Legion from the Rudchester Mithraeum

The inscription on the decorated altar No. 839 from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), recording a gift to the Deity by L. Sentius Castus, a soldier of the Sixth Legion.

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Decorated altar with rock-birth scene from the Rudchester Mithraeum

A decorated altar from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), with the letters DEO crowned with vittae on the shaft, surrounded by palm-branches, a representation of Mithras' rock-birth on the capital, and on the front of the die a naked figure grasping a bull's horns…

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Marble statuette of a seated deity (Jupiter-Serapis?) from Mérida

A marble statuette found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1902, representing a seated deity whose head, arms and feet are lost, tentatively identified as Jupiter-Serapis.

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Stojnik (Stojnik)

Stojnik lies within the inland communications network of the Roman Balkans.

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Stein (Stein am Rhein)

Stein am Rhein occupied a strategic position near the western limits of the Danubian frontier system.

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Rohr im Kremstal (Rohr im Kremstal)

Rohr im Kremstal belongs to the Alpine hinterland associated with Roman Noricum.

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Kadine-Most (Kadin Most)

Kadine-Most lies within the central Balkan region historically connected with Roman Moesia.

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Histria (Istria)

Histria was one of the earliest Greek colonies established on the western shores of the Black Sea.

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Eisenstadt (Eisenstadt)

Eisenstadt belongs to the western Pannonian region historically connected with the Roman frontier zone.

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Durostorum (Silistra)

Durostorum became a major military centre of the lower Danube frontier.

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Bumbești-Gorj (Bumbești-Jiu)

Jiu valley site associated with the defensive system linking Dacia to the southern Danubian regions.

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Botoșești-Paia (Botoșești-Paia)

The locality of Botoșești-Paia has yielded material connected with the Danubian provincial landscape.

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