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  • Liber

    Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces. Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the Principate (1st–3rd century AD) (2022)

    The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where t…
  • Syndexios

    Hermadio

    Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.
  • Liber

    On Mithraism and Freemasonry (1996)

    The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from theseS…
  • Video

    Mithras in Dacia with Csaba Szabó

    Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.
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    Marcus Valerius Maximianus

    Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.
  • Notitia

    Mithras in Dacia
    with Csaba Szabó

    Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.
  • Notitia

    Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs
    and the Cult of Mithras

    Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.
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    Iustus

    Solder of the Legio II Augusta who dedicated a monument to Mithras Invictus in Isca.
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    Claudius Zenobius

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

    Publius Aelius Nigrinus

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

    Aurelius Iustinianus

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

    Tiberius Claudius Balbilus

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

    Aurelius Agathopus

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

    Caracalla

    Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.
  • Syndexios

    Veturius Dubitatus

    Veteran and ex duplicarius of ala I civum Romanorum who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Teutoburgium.
  • Syndexios

    Αὐρήλιος Στέφανος

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

    Slave who dedicated an altar to Nabarze in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa.
  • Syndexios

    Gaius Sacidius Barbarus

    Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.
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    Titus Aurelius Marcus

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

    Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa

    This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

    TNMM522 – CIMRM 2122, 2123

    V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
 
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