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Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.
Marble statue of a naked young man from Mérida, variously identified as a Mithraic torchbearer, a solar figure or a newly initiated member of the cult.
A small marble fragment from Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) bearing the fragmentary inscription (S)arapi(s), attesting to the veneration of Sarapis in proximity to the Mithraic sanctuary.
A marble statuette found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1902, representing a seated deity whose head, arms and feet are lost, tentatively identified as Jupiter-Serapis.
Sculptural fragments from the Mithraeum at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida), comprising a naked foot beside tree-trunk remnants and fragments of a marble seat or table decorated with an acanthus-leaf from which emerge the head and neck of a lion.
A marble statue from Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida), depicting a standing woman in a long chiton, now in the museum at Mérida, with head lost.
A marble statue found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1913, depicting a standing woman in a long chiton, now in the museum at Mérida, with head lost.
A marble statue from Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida), depicting a standing dressed male person whose right leg leans against a tree-trunk and whose raised right arm once held a lance or trident, tentatively identified as Poseidon.
This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.
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.
This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.
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.
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.
The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.
This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.
