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Your search Roman castra of Segontium gave 42 results.

 
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Castra Regina (Regensburg)

Regensburg is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the rivers Danube, Naab and Regen, Danube's northernmost point.

 
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Potaissa (Turda)

Potaissa was a castra in the Roman province of Dacia, located in today's Turda, Romania.

 
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Napoca (Cluj)

Napoca was a Roman castra in the province of Dacia.

 
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Tibiscum (Caransebeş)

Tibiscum was a Dacian town mentioned by Ptolemy, later a Roman castra and municipium.

 
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Pons Aelius (Newcastle upon Tyne)

Pons Aelius, or Newcastle Roman Fort, was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, situated on the north bank of the River Tyne close to the centre of present-day Newcastle upon Tyn

 
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Castra Quintana (Künzing)

Künzing is a municipality in the district of Deggendorf, Bavaria, Germany.

 
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Altars to Cautes and Cautopates from Stefano Rotondo

These two parallel altars to the diophores were dedicated by the Pater and a Leo from the Mithraeum of S. Stefano Rotondo.

 
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A Man of the Gods and Mysteries. On Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres.

 
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Gregory of Nazianzus on rites, tortures and orgies

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

 
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Mithriaca II. The Mithraeum at Ponza

Second volume of Vermaseren's series Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, Mithriaca, dedicated to a small Mithraic sanctuary on the island of Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Marcus Valerius Secundus

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

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Aulus Caedicius Priscianus

Eques Romanus and Pater active in S. Stefano Rotondo.

 
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Mitreo de la calle Espronceda

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

 
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Altar of Ceanu Mic

This limestone altar to Sol Invictus Mithra was found at Turda in 1905.

 
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On the Cave of the Nymphs

Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.

 
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Inscription by Cassianus of Aquilieia

This monument to the invincible god Mithras was inscribed on the façade of the church of Aiello deil Friuli, Aquileia.

 
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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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Tauroctony relief from Békásmegyer

Limestone tauroctony relief found in a quarry at Békásmegyer, ancient Vicus Vindonianus in Pannonia Inferior, together with the upper portion of a sacrificial altar; the standard bull-slaying scene with torchbearers.

 
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Altar from Künzing by Valerius Magio

This fragmented monument bears an inscription of a certain veteran named Valerius Magio.

 
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Mithräum von Künzing

The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

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