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Lucius Caecilius Optatus

Tribune of the First Cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum at Bremenium together with his consacranei.

 
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Album of Portus

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

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Mateusz Zalewski

BSc Econ in Political Science and Intelligence Studies, born in Warsaw, PL, Researcher of Cults and Mysteries, a practicing Heathen since the age of 12.

 
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Forged altar from Soulan

This supposed Mithraic altar from Soulan in the Pyrenees was later identified as a modern forgery, including both the inscription and the alleged cave context in which it was said to have been discovered.

 
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Tauroctony relief of Sarmizegetusa

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

 
Provincia

Histria

Histria connected the northern Adriatic to the Balkan and Danubian worlds through maritime and regional communication networks.

 
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Aemilia

Aemilia connected northern and central Italy through prosperous urban centres and major communication routes of the Roman Peninsula.

 
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Britannia superior

Britannia superior preserves a substantial body of Mithraic evidence associated with military sites and urban centres of Roman Britain.

 
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Armenia

Armenia occupied a frontier crossroads between the Roman world, Anatolia and the Iranian cultural sphere.

 
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Liguria

Liguria linked northern Italy to southern Gaul and the western Mediterranean through coastal and Alpine communication routes.

 
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Venetia

Venetia connected northern Italy to the Adriatic and Danubian worlds through trade, mobility and imperial communication routes.

 
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Umbria

Umbria formed part of the central Italian heartland through which religious practices circulated between Rome and the northern provinces.

 
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Picenum

Picenum connected the Adriatic coast of central Italy to inland communication routes and the wider networks of the Roman Peninsula.

 
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Samnium

Samnium occupied a mountainous region of central Italy linked to Rome through military movement and regional urban networks.

 
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Lucania

Lucania connected inland southern Italy to the Tyrrhenian and Ionian maritime worlds through regional communication networks.

 
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Campania

Campania preserved a vibrant urban and maritime environment closely connected to the commercial life of Roman Italy.

 
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Latium

Latium formed the political and religious centre of the Roman world where some of the most important Mithraic communities developed.

 
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Mauretania Tingitana

At the western edge of the Roman world, Mauretania Tingitana linked North Africa to Hispania through military and maritime exchange.

 
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Galatia

Galatia occupied the central Anatolian crossroads through which military movement and eastern provincial networks intersected.

 
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Asia

Asia formed one of the most urbanised and interconnected provinces of the eastern Roman world where Mithraic cults circulated widely.

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