The New Mithraeum Database

Oescus developed into a major legionary and urban centre on the lower Danube.

Oescus, Palatiolon or Palatiolum was an important ancient city on the Danube river in Roman Moesia.

In the altar that Titus Tettius Plotus dedicated to the invincible God, he called himself pater sacrorum.

Tuff tauroctony relief in two fragments from Ghighen, ancient Oescus in Moesia Inferior, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene with the full iconographic programme.

Circular Mithraic relief from Oescus, Moesia Inferior, mentioned by LeRoy Campbell; no further details are available to the author.

Limestone tauroctony relief from Bechli, 8 km from Ghighen, ancient Oescus in Moesia Inferior, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene in a grotto.

Limestone altar from Oescus, Moesia Inferior, dedicated to Deo invicto by Tettius Plotus, veteran of Legio IIII Flavia Fidelis and pater sacrorum — one of the clearest grade attributions from Moesia Inferior.

Large marble altar from Ghighen, ancient Oescus in Moesia Inferior, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Marcus Titius Maximus, duumviralis of the Colonia, with Aelianus as scribe.

White marble head in Phrygian cap with a sorrowful expression from Ghighen, ancient Oescus in Moesia Inferior, probably the head of Mithras as bull-slayer.