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Monumentum

Bronze medallion of Gordian III with tauroctony

The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

 
Monumentum

Graffito on the sacred nitre

Greek ritual graffito scratched on wall plaster in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, mentioning the “fiery exhalation” and the “sacred nitre” of the Magi.

Syndexios

Alfius Severus

Pater (?) at Mithraeum of Marino.

 
Locus

Castrimoenium (Marino)

Marino is an Italian comune with 46,676 inhabitants located in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in Lazio.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo d’Ottaviano Zeno

A probable Mithraic sanctuary near Santa Maria in Domnica on the Caelian Hill, known from a group of dispersed reliefs formerly owned by Ottaviano Zeno.

 
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Pontiae (Ponza)

The Pontiae islands, including modern Ponza, formed part of the Roman maritime landscape of Latium and preserve one of the most remarkable Mithraic sanctuaries of Roman Italy, renowned for its rare stucco zodiac and astral symbolism.

 
Regio

Italia

Roman Italia preserves a central and exceptionally influential corpus within the development of Mithraic cults.

Socius

Laurent Bricault

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

 
Locus

Alexandria (Alexandria)

Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in April 331 BC as one of his many city foundations. After he captured the Egyptian Satrapy from the Persians, Alexander wanted to build a large Greek city on Egypt’s coast that would bear his name.

 
Locus

Ruše (Ruše)

Ruše is a small town in northeastern Slovenia.

 
Locus

Pisa (Pisa)

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

 
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Hawarte (Hawarte)

Al-Ankawi is a Syrian town located in the Ziyarah Subdistrict of the al-Suqaylabiyah District in Hama Governorate.

 
Locus

Septeuil (Septeuil)

Septeuil has been known in Mithriacism since 1984, when a sanctuary dedicated to Mithras was discovered in the 4th century. It was located in a spring sanctuary (nymphaeum) of the 1st century.

 
Locus

Divio (Dijon)

Dijon is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period.

 
Locus

Cibinium (Sibiu)

Sibiu is a middle-sized well preserved fortified medieval town in central Romania, situated in the historical region of Transylvania. In 2004, its historical center began the process of becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

 
Locus

Tarsus (Tarsus)

Tarsus is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey.

 
Locus

[Soulan] (Soulan)

Soulan is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.

 
Locus

Pausilypon (Posillipo)

Posillipo is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples.

 
Locus

Termini Himeraeae (Termini Imerese)

Termini Imerese is a town of the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, in Italy.

 
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Cuicul (Djemila)

Roman colonial city of Numidia, later known as Djémila, renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved late antique urban remains.

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