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Locus

Pola (Pula)

Pola developed into one of the principal urban and maritime centres of the northern Adriatic.

Monumentum

Limestone votive altar with Sol head from Pula

A small limestone votive altar from Pola (modern Pula) bearing on its front face a damaged relief head of a youthful Sol with long curly hair, above which is carved the inscription Soli and below the dedicatory text by Atticus (No. 757).

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief fragment from Pula

A fragmentary limestone tauroctony relief found on the south slope of the Castellhügel at Pola (modern Pula) during the demolition of a wall, now in the Lapidary Museum at Pula, preserving the bull's body, the dog, the serpent, the scorpion and a standing cross-legged torchbearer…

Monumentum

Inscription "Deo Mithrae" from a fullonica at Pula

A brief inscription reading D(eo) M(ithrae), found inside a fullonica at Pola (modern Pula) in a room that had once served as a vestibule.

Monumentum

Inscription "Soli Milace Atticus" from the Sol altar at Pula

The inscription on the votive altar No. 756 from Pola (modern Pula), reading Soli above the head of Sol and Milace / Atticus under the head, recording the dedication by a person named Atticus.

Monumentum

Mitreo della Crypta Balbi

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

Liber

Two esoteric tarots

A conversation between Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet on the esoteric tarot, in relation to the elite and Saturnian Sola-Busca tarocchi and the popular and luminous Tarot de Marseille.

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.

Syndexios

Paterna

A Romano-Germanic woman whose inscription became central to debates on female participation in the Mithraic cult.

Monumentum

Prehistoric axe with Mithraic associations from Argolis

Black polished cone-shaped prehistoric axe from Argolis, now in the Athens National Museum, interpreted by some scholars as having Mithraic votive associations.

Monumentum

Mithraeum II of Aquincum in Victorinus’s house

This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.

Locus

Praeneste (Palestrina)

Palestrina is a modern Italian city and comune with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about 35 kilometres east of Rome.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with Mithras grasping the bull's horns from Rome

Tauroctony relief formerly in the house of the Alterii near S. Marco in Rome, now of unknown whereabouts, described by Gruterus as showing Mithras pressing both knees onto the bull and grasping its horns with the knife in the shoulder, with scorpion, serpent, raven, Sol and Luna…

Monumentum

Large marble altar CIL VI 510 dedicated to Mater Deum and Sol Invictus Mithras by Aedesius, Rome

Large marble altar found near S. Giovanni in Laterano, dedicated by Sextilius Agesilaus Aedesius, pater patrum of Sol Invictus Mithras, to the Great Mother and Attis following his taurobolium and criobolium, dated to 376 A.D.

Provincia

Chersonnesus Taurica

Ancient region of the Crimean Peninsula associated with the Greek colonies and Roman presence in Taurica.

Locus

Baetulo (Badalona)

The area was populated by Iberians, but the origins of Baetulo date back to the 1st century BC, when the Romans founded the city on the Rosés hill. Baetulo was famous for its vineyards, which produced wine for export throughout the Empire.

Locus

Aquileia (Aquileia)

Aquileia, now a small municipality in north-eastern Italy, was one of the largest cities in the world in the 2nd century AD, with a population of 100,000.

Syndexios

Marcus Valerius Maximianus

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

Provincia

Macedonia

Macedonia formed a major crossroads between the Greek world, the Balkans and the communication routes of the eastern Roman empire.

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