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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…
  • Liber

    The Cult of Mithras in the Roman Provinces of Gaul (1974)

    On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste dominé par le découpage administratif des « Roman provinces of Gaul ». Mais compte tenu de l'ensemble que ce…
  • 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.

    TNMM291

  • 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…
  • 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.
  • Monumentum

    Mercury of Groß-Gerau

    The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.

    TNMM618

    Mercurio / Quillenio A(ulus) / Ibliomarius / Placidus nego(otiator) / cas(tello) Mat(tiacorum) lanius / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • 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

    Exsochuos

    Gladiator to whom his companions Cimber and Pietas erected a monument in Colonia, Germania.
  • Syndexios

    Corbulo

    Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.
  • Syndexios

    Marcus Valerius Maximianus

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

    Aurelius Hermodorus

    Praeses of the Noric Mediterranean province, of equestrian rank, restaured the Mithraeum of Virunum in 311.
  • Monumentum

    Iron sword and crown of Güglingen

    Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

    TNMM377

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen

    Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

    TNMM444 – CIMRM 1319

    In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / deo / invihto (sic) / Materninius / Fau[s]tinus carx (sic) / in suo posuit / (libens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Incriptions to the gods of East and West

    These two inscriptions by a certain Titus Martialius Candidus are dedicated to Cautes and Cautopates.

    TNMM496 – CIMRM 1214

    D(eo) Or(ienti) / T(itus) Mar/tial(i)us / Candi/dus v(otum) s(olvit) / l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito). D(eo) Oc(cidenti) / [T(itus)] Mar/[ti]al(i)us / Candi/dus v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(eri…
  • Syndexios

    Iustus

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

    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.
 
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