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Pergamum (Bergama)

Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.

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Amorium (Hisarköy)

Amorium, also known as Amorion, was a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor which was founded in the Hellenistic period, flourished under the Byzantine Empire, and declined after the Arab sack of 838.

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Tyana (Tyana)

Tyana, earlier known as Tuwana during the Iron Age, and Tūwanuwa during the Bronze Age, was an ancient city in the Anatolian region of Cappadocia, in modern Kemerhisar, Niğde Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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Arsameia (Eski Kâhta)

Arsameia on the Nymphaios is an ancient city located in Old Kâhta in Kâhta district, Adıyaman Province, Turkey.

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Amasia (Amasya)

Amasya is a city in northern Turkey, in the Black Sea Region.

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Temple of Sol inscription from Como, dedicated under Diocletian

An inscription recording the completion and dedication of the Temple of Sol at Como by T. Flavius Postumius Titianus, corrector of Italy, by order of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, with Axilius the Younger as curator of the city of the Comenses.

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Inscription of Sextus Dugius Valentio, sevir augustalis, from Brescia

An inscription from Brescia (ancient Brixia) recording an ex-voto dedication to Sol Deus Invictus by Sextus Dugius Valentio, a sevir augustalis of the city.

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Imperial inscription of Diocletian and Maximian dedicated to Sol from Aquileia

An inscription from Aquileia recording a joint dedication to Deus Sol by the invincible Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, comparable to their dedication to Apollo Belenus elsewhere in the city.

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Epistyle fragment "Deo Invicto Mithrae" from Aquileia

A fragmentary epistyle from Aquileia preserving part of the inscription [Deo In]victo [Mi]th[rae], indicating the presence of a Mithraic sanctuary in the city.

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Cibinium (Sibiu)

Roman settlement of Dacia superior located in the area of present-day Sibiu in Romania. The site became an important urban and military centre, later developed into the medieval city known as Hermannstadt in German and Nagyszeben in Hungarian.

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Tauroctony found on the Esquiline

This white marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on the Esquilino near the Church of Saint Lucy in Selci in Rome.

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Stele from Histria

Marble stele from Histria, Moesia Inferior, found reused in a late wall in the southern quarter of the city, bearing a Mithraic dedication or scene.

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Konjic (Konjic)

Konjic is a city located in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Tauroctony relief fragment from the Villa Ludovisi, Rome

A white marble tauroctony relief fragment, in the seventeenth century at the Palazzo Caesiani near the Vatican and later in the Villa Ludovisi in Rome, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and raven, with a cross-legged torchbearer on a base; now lost…

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Marble tablet dedicated by leones from Rome

Marble tablet in the Vatican Musea, Galleria Lapidaria, with a dedication to the Invictus and Urania by two initiates of the Leo grade, the text divided by four feet pointing in opposite directions as a pro itu et reditu formula.

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Head of Mithras in Phrygian cap from Rome

Head in fine-grained marble in the Vatican Musea Magazzini, showing a curly-haired figure in a Phrygian cap turned to the left with a grievous expression, probably representing Mithras.

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Marble slab fragment with leaping ox from Rome

Fragment of a grey marble slab formerly in the Palazzo Caponii and now in the Vatican Musea, Galleria Lapidaria, with an inscription on two arched borders and a leaping ox in the blank space.

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Boghaz-Koï (Boğazkale)

Boğazkale is a town of Çorum Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, located 87 kilometres from the city of Çorum.

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Ciciliano (Ciciliano)

Ciciliano is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium, located about 35 kilometres east of Rome.

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Mithraeum of London

Major Mithraic sanctuary in the City of London with east-west orientation, multiple building phases and rich sculptural finds.

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