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The New Mithraeum Database

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Inscription of Iulius Iulianus from Turda

Inscription from Turda, ancient Potaissa in Dacia, recording that Iulius Iulianus erected the monument ex voto.

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Tauroctony relief with inscription from Turda

Lost white marble tauroctony relief from Turda, ancient Potaissa in Dacia, depicting the bull-slaying with dog, serpent, and scorpion; the inscription in the lower border named the dedicant Iulius Iulianus.

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Altar of the Augustales from Cluj

Limestone altar from Cluj, ancient Napoca in Dacia, dedicated to Soli invicto Mithrae for the welfare of the ordo Augustalis.

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Altar of Marcus Cocceius Genialis from Cluj

Inscription from Cluj, ancient Napoca in Dacia, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto by Marcus Cocceius Genialis, vir egregius, procurator Augustorum of Dacia Porolissensis.

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Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni

This sculpture from Dobrosloveni, Romania, depicts the petrogenesis of Mithras, with a hole through the generative rock from which water flowed.

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Sarmizegetusa (Doştat)

Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa was the capital and the largest city of Roman Dacia, later named Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa after the former Dacian capital, located some 40 km away. The city was destroyed by the Goths.

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Tauroctony from Reșca

Tauroctony relief fragment with torchbearer and scene of Mithras’ rockbirth from Romula, Romania.

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Romula (Reșca)

Romula or Malva was an ancient city in Roman Dacia, later the village of Reşca, Dobrosloveni Commune, Olt County, Romania.

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Maros Porto (Sighișoara)

Sighișoara is a municipality on the Târnava Mare River in Mureș County, central Romania.

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Potaissa (Turda)

Potaissa was a castra in the Roman province of Dacia, located in today's Turda, Romania.

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Napoca (Cluj)

Napoca was a Roman castra in the province of Dacia.

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Tibiscum (Caransebeş)

Tibiscum was a Dacian town mentioned by Ptolemy, later a Roman castra and municipium.

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Apulum (Alba Iulia)

Apulum, now within Alba Iulia, was a Roman settlement first mentioned by the mathematician, astrologer and geographer Ptolemy. Its name comes from the Dacian Apoulon.

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Tauroctony relief of Sarmizegetusa

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

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Altar of Manius Cretinus from Gherla

This limestone altar from Roman Dacia preserves a dedication to Mithras by a commander of the Ala II Pannoniorum.

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Statue of a torchbearer from Apulum

This weathered limestone statue from the Mithraeum of Apulum depicts a standing figure in Oriental attire holding the head of a bull or ram.

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Mithraeum of S. Oancea

The remains of this Mithraeum were discovered in 1930 in the Cetatea district of Alba Iulia, ancient Apulum.

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