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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Syndexios

Hector Corneliorum

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta by means of a ‘divine vision’.

 
Locus

[Santo Domingo de Silos]

Burgos is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Santo Domingo de Silos

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

 
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Valentia

Valencia is one of the oldest Roman cities in Spain, founded in 138 BC under the name 'Valentia Edetanorum' on the site of an older Iberian city.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from the Gran Mitreo de Mérida

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

 
Monumentum

Altar from Málaga

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

 
Monumentum

Cautes from Mérida

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

 
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Tarraco

The capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, Tarraco is the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula.

 
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Asturica Augusta

Astorga is a municipality and city of Spain located in the central area of the province of León, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, 43 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital.

 
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Malaca

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

 
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Italica

Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania; its site is close to the town of Santiponce in the province of Seville, Spain.

 
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Toletum

Toledo is the repository of more than 2000 years of history.

 
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Barcino

Barcelona is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. Founded as a Roman city, in the Middle Ages Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona.

 
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Benifaió

The Roman remains of Benifaió, or Benifayó in Spanish, are located on the outskirts of the city. Of particular interest is a rustic villa inhabited between the 1st and 4th centuries according to the numismatic and ceramic remains found.

 
Locus

Lucus Augusti

Today Lugo was the capital of the Capori tribe. It was conquered by Paullus Fabius Maximus and named Lucus Augustus in 13 BC after the positioning of a Roman military camp.

 
Locus

La Isla

Colunga is a municipality in the Autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

 
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Iluro

Ituro, now Cabrera de Mar, was an important trading town and the capital of the Laietani, an Iberian people, until Roman times.

 
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Igabrum

Cabra is a municipality in Córdoba province, Andalusia, Spain and the site of former bishopric Egabro.

 
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Emerita Augusta

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

 
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Caetobriga

Caetobriga, now Setúbal of Proto-Celtic *Caetobrix, became a Turdetani settlement which passed under Roman rule. In the time of Al-Andalus the city was known as Shaṭūbar.

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