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Locus

Portus
Portus was a large artificial harbour of Ancient Rome.
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, 382
. . reus pater / . . . [G]lycon / . . . Rufus / . . . [D]afinus . . . Sinplicius / . . . Petrus / . . . Crescentinus / . . . Crescentio / . . . Bictorus / . . . Dafinus / . . . Feston / . . . . [S]erp…
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, 457
Invicto / Mythrae / Diosco/rus Marci (servus) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Locus

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

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

Ismael Wolf
~ A modern syndexios ~
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

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, 793
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, 1038
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, 560
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