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Locus

Utum (Vit)

Vitum occupied a position within the communications landscape of the lower Danube frontier.

Textus

Archaeological Evidence of the Cult of Mithras in Ancient Italy

PhD Thesis by Vittoria Canciani, coordinated by A. Mastrocinque. Verona, 14th April 2022.

Locus

Kreta (Крета)

Small settlement on the lower Vit River in northern Bulgaria, within the territory of Roman Moesia Inferior.

Syndexios

Gaius Curius Avitus

Member of the Mithraic congregation of Emerita Augusta who commissioned a monumental torchbearer statue under Accius Hedychrus.

Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Vitalis

Mithraic priest and dedicator of the leontocephalic deity from the Fagan Mithraeum at Ostia.

Monumentum

Cippus of Aurelius Crescens from Ostia

A small cippus from the Mithraeum of Sabazeus records the rebuilding of the sanctuary after its collapse.

Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Avitus

Landowner from Augustobriga, transferred to Tarraco by Antoninus Pius and owner of the villa of Els Munts and its Mithraeum.

Monumentum

Dedication to Mithras from Pax Iulia

Marble inscription recording the construction of a Mithraic meeting place and the donation of a crater by Titus Flavius Artemidorus.

Syndexios

Elagabalus

Roman emperor at the age of 14, from 218 to his death in 222, Elagabalus was a main priest of the sun god Elagabal in Emesa.

Locus

Civitas Montanensium (Montana)

Civitas Montanensium developed around the important Roman settlement at modern Montana in Bulgaria.

Monumentum

Signaculum of Caius Valerius Avitus

Bronze personal seal of a duovir of Tarraco and owner of the villa of Els Munts.

Monumentum

Column base with dedication to Mithras from SS. Eusebii et Viti, Rome

Lower part of a candelabrum-shaft in the form of a palm trunk on an acanthus base, with a dedication to Mithras by T. Aelius Iustus on three faces of the plinth, found between the churches of SS. Eusebius and Vitus, Rome.

Monumentum

Graffito "Dominus Sol hic avitat" from the Caseggiato del Sole

Graffito on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole adjacent to the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia, reading "Dominus Sol hic avitat" (Lord Sun dwells here).

Monumentum

Inscription of Lucaius from Civitas Montanensium

Inscription from Civitas Montanensium, Moesia Superior, dedicated to Deo sancto invicto by Lucaius ex voto.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Civitas Montanensium

White marble tauroctony relief from Golema Kutlovica, ancient Civitas Montanensium in Moesia Superior, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene.

Monumentum

Altar of Lucius Lucceius from Vitalj

Limestone altar found on the summit of Monte Vitalj near Prozor, Dalmatia, in 1900, dedicated to Soli invicto deo by Lucius Lucceius; the epithet rupe nato may be present in line one.

Monumentum

Mithraic assemblage from Vitalj mountain

Altar and a relief of a figure tearing a lion to pieces, found along the Otočac–Gospić road near the mountains Veliki and Mali Vitalj, Dalmatia; the tauroctony interpretation of the lion-tearing relief was subsequently disputed.

Monumentum

Column dedicated to Cautes by Albius Atticus and Albius Avitus from Teurnia

Column found at Sankt Peter in Holz, ancient Teurnia in Noricum, dedicated to Cautes by Lucius Albius Atticus and Caius Albius Avitus — probably father and son — making it a rare joint family dedication to a Mithraic torchbearer.

Monumentum

Altar of Lucius Vitruvius Quintus from Lobenfeld

Inscribed altar from Lobenfeld dedicated to Deo invicto by Lucius Vitruvius Quintus

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