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Pausilypon (Posillipo)

Posillipo is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples.

Locus

Pausilypum (Napoli)

Pausilypum, modern Posillipo, overlooked the Bay of Naples and became renowned for its elite villas and coastal setting.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Naples

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Puteoli

This lost Mithraic relief, formerly kept near the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Naples, was probably a large tauroctony associated with the area of Puteoli or Pausilypon.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Naples

The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

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