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  • Liber

    El culto de Mitra en Hispania (2018)

    Jaime Alvar hace en este libro un estudio exhaustivo de las condiciones en las que se produce la introducción de Mitra en Hispania, a finales del siglo I d. C., en un momento sorprendentemente prematuro en relación con otras regiones del occidente latin…
  • Syndexios

    Lucius Petreius Victor

    Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.
  • Syndexios

    Gaius Accius Hedychrus

    Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta
  • Syndexios

    Marcus Valerius Secundus

    Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.
  • Syndexios

    Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

    Pater patrum and Pater sacrorum among other titles.
  • Syndexios

    Gaius Camilius Superatus

    Gaius dedicated an altar to the god Invictus in Emerita Augusta in the 2nd century.
  • Mithraeum

    Casa del Mitreo

    The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.

    TNMM1386

  • Mithraeum

    Cerro de San Albín

    Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

    TNMM29 – CIMRM 772

  • Monumentum

    Feast from Mérida

    This scene of a feast from Mérida shows three persons at a table with other people standing beside them, one holding a bull’s head on a plate.

    TNMM300 – CIMRM 782

  • Mithraeum

    Gran mitreo de Mérida

    Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

    TNMM585

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo de la calle Espronceda

    The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

    TNMM244

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Gaius Iulius from Mérida

    The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.

    TNMM427 – CIMRM 795

    Deo / Invicto / pro salute / Cai Iuli / […].
  • Monumentum

    Altar by Hector Corneliorum of Mérida

    This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

    TNMM586

    ... Invict[o Mithrae] / Hector Cornelior[um] / ex visu.
  • Monumentum

    Altar by Caius Aemilius Superaius of Merida

    Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

    TNMM426 – CIMRM 796

    Deo / Invicto / C(aius) Camilius / Superat(us) / a(nimo) l(ibens) p(osuit).
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Merida consecrated by Marcus Valerius Secundus

    This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

    TNMM338 – CIMRM 793

    Ann(o) Col(oniae) CLXXX / aram genesis / Inuicti Mithrae / M(arcus) Val(erius) Secundus / fr(umentarius) Leg(ionis) VII Gem(inae) dono / ponendam merito curauit / G(aio) Accio Hedychro patre.
  • Monumentum

    Triptic of Tróia

    The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

    TNMM245 – CIMRM 798

  • Monumentum

    Serapis head from Mérida

    This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

    TNMM470 – CIMRM 783

  • Syndexios

    Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus

    The pater Artemidorus seems to be an Augustan freedman of the Claudians, of Eastern origin.
  • Syndexios

    Hector Corneliorum

    Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta ’by means of a divine vision’, something unusual in Hispania.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of the Gran Mitreo de Mérida

    These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

    TNMM584

 
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