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Locus

Istros (Istria)

Under Roman rule from the 1st century CE, Histria was incorporated into the province of Moesia. The city is noted on the Tabula Peutingeriana, which places it 11 miles from Tomis and 9 miles from Ad Stoma.

Locus

Histria (Istria)

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

Monumentum

Stele from Histria

Marble stele from Histria, Moesia Inferior, found reused in a late wall in the southern quarter of the city, bearing a Mithraic dedication or scene.

Provincia

Histria

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

Monumentum

Coin of Septimius Severus and god on horseback

Coin of Istrus, Moesia Inferior, showing Caracalla on one side and a god on horseback (Mithras ?) on the other.

Monumentum

Altar of Poreč

This stone altar found in Poreč was dedicated by two freedmen to the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.

Syndexios

Melichrisus

Early Mithraic Leo from Novae whose name has been associated with the honey symbolism of the leonine grade.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Târgușor

This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a ’secret forest’ in Moesia.

Notitia

Mithraism As Proud Boy Prototype: Underground Clubs of the Syndexioi and Pueri Superbi

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

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