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Euthyces

Freedman, he offered a relief of Mithras as a bull killer for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

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Aurelius Hermodorus

Praeses of the Noric Mediterranean province, of equestrian rank, restaured the Mithraeum of Virunum in 311.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Ozd

Marble tauroctony relief from Ozd (Magyarózd), attesting a rural Mithraic presence in the interior of Roman Dacia Superior.

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Mάρκος Σίκις Δόσσις

Member of the Mithraic community attested at Kreta in Moesia Inferior.

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Altar of Marcus Sikis Dossis from Kreta

Sandstone altar with patera from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior, bearing a Greek inscription dedicating an altar to Helios Mithras by Marcus Sikis Dossis.

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Mithraeum at Kreta

Mithraic sanctuary excavated in a quarry at Kreta near Nikopol, Moesia Inferior, carved into the rock and including a small niche with a sandstone tauroctony relief, a base, and several altars.

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Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.

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Two-register tauroctony from Ratiaria

Fragmentary Mithraic relief from Ratiaria depicting the tauroctony above a series of narrative scenes from the myth of Mithras and Sol.

Locus

Augustobriga (Muro de Ágreda)

Roman town founded on the site of the Celtiberian settlement of Arekorataz, beneath modern Muro de Ágreda in northern Hispania.

Liber

Mitra. Un dios entre Oriente y Occidente

Un recorrido por los orígenes, la expansión y el legado de Mitra desde Persia hasta el corazón de Roma.

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Volusius

Dedicated a statue of Arimanius in Eboracum, now in the Yorkshire Museum.

Monumentum

Arimanius from York

The statue of Arimanius/Ahriman was found in 1874 under the city wall of York during the construction of the railway station.

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Tauroctony relief from Oescus

Tuff tauroctony relief in two fragments from Ghighen, ancient Oescus in Moesia Inferior, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene with the full iconographic programme.

Socius

Peter Mark Adams

Professional author with a special interest in Greco-Roman ritual and sacred landscapes, art and philosophy.

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Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius

Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.

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Messius Artemidorus

Magister of a Bracaran sodalicium associated with the cult of Mithras in Roman Lusitania.

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Titus Martialius Candidus

Member of a Mithraic community at Stockstadt who dedicated altars to Cautes and Cautopates.

Monumentum

Slab of Cornelio from Trillo

A sandstone slab found along the border of the Tagus river near Thirmarum (modern Trillo, near Cifuentes in Guadalajara), recording an inscriptoiin by a certain Cornelius, freedman of Gaius.

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Dedication to Sol Invictus from Lambaesis

Limestone slab dedicated to the invincible Sun by the governor Marcus Aurelius Decimus near the temple of Aesculapius.

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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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