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    Thebaid

    The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.
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    Marcus Statius Niger

    Marcus Statius Niger was a lion who erected an altar to Cautopates in Statio, the present-day Angera, with his brother Gaius.
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    Publius Aelius Valerianus

    Soldier of Legio XIII Gemina and strator consularis who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras.
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    Publius Publius Aelius Nepos

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    Statius Ursus

    Dedicated with his son Ursinus the double face relief of Proložac.
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    Statius Ursinus

    Dedicated with his father Ursus the double face relief of Proložac.
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    Publius Numidius Decens

    Born in North Africa, he dedicated an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras, found in the Forum of Lambasis.
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    Publius Aelius Nigrinus

    Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.
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    Publius Acilius Pisonianus

    Pater patratus, he financed the restoration of a Mithraeum in Milan.
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    Nigidius Figulus

    Pythagorean and mage.
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    Publius Aelius Vocco

    Soldier of the XXII Legio Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz that erected an altar to Mithras in Sumelocenna.
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    Valerian

    Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.
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    Publius Aelius Mercurialis

    Pater of Aquileia that devoted an altar to Mithras.
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    Flavius Lucilianus

    Public horseman and consul under the emperor Caracalla, who completed a Mithraeum in Aveia Vestina.
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    Antiochus I

    King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.
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    Quintus Tessignius Maximianus

    Pater of Aquileia that devoted an altar to Mithras.
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    Notitia

    Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs
    and the Cult of Mithras

    Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.
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    Notitia

    Re-interpreting
    the Mysteries of Mithras

    Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.
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    Notitia

    From Mithraism to Freemasonry. A history of ideas

    Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.
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    Monumentum

    Altar of Aelius Valerianus from Illmitz

    Found in Illmitz, Austria, in 1959, this altar was dedicated to the unconquered god Mithras by a certain Aelius Valerianus.

    TNMM790 – CIMRM 2375

    D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P(ublius) Aelius) Vale/rianus miles) / leg(ionis) XIIII g(eminae) s/trator c/o(n)s(ularis) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
 
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