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The New Mithraeum Database

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Nicopolis ad Istrum (Nikyup)

Nicopolis ad Istrum or Nicopolis ad Iatrum was a Roman and Early Byzantine town. Its ruins are located at the village of Nikyup, 20 km north of Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria. The site was placed on the Tentative List for consideration as a Wo

 
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Puteoli (Pozzuoli)

Puteoli, the great commercial harbour of Roman Italy, preserves evidence of the cosmopolitan maritime environments through which Mithraic cults circulated across the Mediterranean world.

 
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Regnum Bospori

The Bosporan Kingdom preserves evidence from one of the northernmost horizons of Mithraic diffusion in the ancient world.

 
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Zuccabar (Khemis Miliana)

Zuccabar was an ancient town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.

 
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Grumentum (Grumento Nova)

Grumentum was an ancient Roman city in the centre of Lucania, in what is now the comune of Grumento Nova, c.

 
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Persia

Persia occupies a central place in the intellectual and historical background of Mithraic studies.

 
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Lycia et Pamphylia

Lycia and Pamphylia preserve Mithraic evidence linked to southern Anatolian maritime and urban networks.

 
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Macedonia

Macedonia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by major Balkan routes and long-standing urban traditions.

 
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Moesia

Moesia preserves a strongly militarised body of Mithraic evidence along the Danubian frontier of the empire.

 
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Corsica et Sardinia

Corsica and Sardinia preserve a small island corpus within the western Mediterranean diffusion of Mithraism.

 
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Bithynia et Pontus

Bithynia and Pontus preserve important evidence for the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Black Sea and northwestern Anatolia.

 
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Achaea

Achaea preserves some of the earliest and most culturally complex evidence for Mithraic activity in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean.

 
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Zeugma (Belkıs)

Zeugma was an ancient Hellenistic era Greek and then Roman city of Commagene; located in modern Gaziantep Province, Turkey.

Syndexios

Marcus Valerius Maximianus

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

Socius

Olaf Kaper

Egyptologist with interest in the religion of Roman Egypt.

Socius

Laurent Bricault

Professeur d’histoire romaine à l’Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj

This inscription probably belonged to the fourth mithraeum of Poetovio and records the restoration of a Mithraic temple by the dux Aurelius Iustinianus.

Syndexios

Lucius Apuleius Marcellus

North African author, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician associated with the Mithraic milieu of Ostia.

 
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Madauros (M'Daourouch (مداوروش))

Madauros was a Roman-Berber city in Numidia, in present-day Algeria, renowned in antiquity as an important intellectual and educational centre of Roman North Africa.

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Ision

An imperial slave and customs administrator of the Illyrian tax system, he financed and built a Mithraic temple in Moesia Superior.

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