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Locus

Portus
Portus was a large artificial harbour of Ancient Rome.
Locus

Maros Porto
Sighișoara is a municipality on the Târnava Mare River in Mureș County, central Romania.
Monumentum

Altar of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia
In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.
TNMM665 – CIMRM 1942, 1943
Invicto / Mythrae / Diosco/rus Marci (servus) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Syndexios

Lucius Agrius Calendius
Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.
Socius

Ismael Wolf
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Antium
This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.
TNMM908 – CIMRM 204
Monumentum

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.
TNMM648 – CIMRM 325
. . reus pater / . . . [G]lycon / . . . Rufus / . . . [D]afinus . . . Sinplicius / . . . Petrus / . . . Crescentinus / . . . Crescentio / . . . Bictorus / . . . Dafinus / . . . Feston / . . . . [S]erp…
Monumentum

Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj
This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.
TNMM413 – CIMRM 1496, 1497
Invict(o) Mithrae / et Transitu dei / Theodorus p(ublici) p(ortorii) / scrut(ator) stat(ionis) Poet(ovionensis) / ex visu.
Monumentum

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj
The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.
TNMM186 – CIMRM 1492, 1493
Naturae dei / Prudens Primi / Antoni Rufi p(ublici) p(ortorii) / vil(ici) vic(arius).
Monumentum

Altar of Senj made by the slave Hermes
The dedicator of this altar was a slave in the service of a high official, the prefect Gaius Antonius Rufus, known from other inscriptions.
TNMM402 – CIMRM 1846
I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / spelaeum cum / omne impen/sa Hermes C(aii) / Antoni(i) Rufi / praef(ecti) veh(iculorum) et / cond(uctoris) p(ublici) p(ortorii)/ ser(vus) vilic(us) Fortu/nat(us or -ianus) fecit.
Monumentum

CIMRM 322
Fragment of a marble vase, found near Portus by Prince Torlonia.
TNMM954 – CIMRM 322
Monumentum

CIMRM 323
CIL XIV 55; MMM II No.
TNMM955 – CIMRM 323
Monumentum

CIMRM 324
Tegula in Portu reperta.
TNMM956 – CIMRM 324
Monumentum

CIMRM 341
Marble cippus, of which two sides only have been preserved (H. 0.40 Br. 0.37).
TNMM957 – CIMRM 341
Monumentum

CIMRM 342
Fragments of two torchbearers (MMM II No. 19d).
TNMM958 – CIMRM 342
Monumentum

CIMRM 345
In the irregular room opposite the sanctuary, the so-called Dominicum Clementis, a marble statuette, representing a bearded person as the good Shepherd was found.
TNMM959 – CIMRM 345
Monumentum

CIMRM 346
In the room left to the entrance of the Mithraeum, there is a well, from which water runs through a pipe, which penetrates the wall and empties in a square basin.
TNMM960 – CIMRM 346
Monumentum

CIMRM 348
Duo fragmenta marmorea facile eiusdem lapidis litteris detritis in ecclesiae pavimento inserta.
TNMM961 – CIMRM 348
Monumentum

CIMRM 359
White marble statue (H. 0.25 Br. 0.11).
TNMM963 – CIMRM 359
Monumentum

CIMRM 361
Pars superior parvae columnae marmoreae litteris saeculi secundi exeuntis vel tertii effossa ut videtur in Esquilino.
TNMM964 – CIMRM 361