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The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.

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Flavios Horimos

Freedman and administrator of the country estate of a certain Flavius Macedo in Moesia.

 
Monumentum

Fragmentary tauroctony from Kostolac

This weathered marble fragment from Viminacium preserves part of a tauroctony with Luna, Cautopates, the serpent, and the dog.

 
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Viminacium

Viminacium was a major city, military camp, and the capital of the Roman province of Moesia.

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Melichrisus

Slave of Philopalaestrus.

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Titus Tettius Plotus

Pater Sacrorum and veteran of the Legio IV Flavia Felix.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Ision from Guberevac

In this monument, the imperial slave Ision claims the completion of a new temple to Mithras in Moesia.

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Ision

An imperial slave and customs officer in Illyria, he built a temple to Mithras in Moesia.

 
Locus

Statio Vizianum

Klečevce is a village in the municipality of Kumanovo, North Macedonia.

 
Locus

Novae

Novae was initially one of the few great Roman legionary fortresses along the empire’s border, forming part of the defences along the Danube in northern Bulgaria. It lies about 4 km east of the modern town of Svishtov.

 
Locus

Kreta

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Straton

The son of an eponymous person, he consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.

 
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Istros

Under Roman rule from the 1st century CE, Histria was incorporated into the province of Moesia. The city is noted on the Tabula Peutingeriana, which places it 11 miles from Tomis and 9 miles from Ad Stoma.

 
Locus

Storgosia

Storgosia was a Roman road station and later a fortress, located in the modern Kaylaka Park in the vicinity of modern Pleven (North-central Bulgaria). Pleven is today the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria.

 
Locus

Târgușor

Târgușor is a commune in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania.

 
Locus

Guberevac

Guberevac is a village in the municipality of Sopot, Serbia.

 
Locus

Ulpia Oescus

Oescus, Palatiolon or Palatiolum was an important ancient city on the Danube river in Roman Moesia.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Târgușor

This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a ’secret forest’ in Moesia.

 
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Coin of Septimius Severus and god on horseback

Coin of Istrus, Moesia Inferior, showing Caracalla on one side and a god on horseback (Mithras ?) on the other.

 
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Tauroctony from Pleven

This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.

 
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Autel of Straton from Kreta

Straton, son of Straton, consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.

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