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

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Tauroctony of Ulpius Linus from Apulum

This relief of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated by the bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina, Marcus Ulpius Linus.

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Sextus Syntrophus

Syntrofus, whose Greek cognomen means companion, is part of a modest Mithraic community in Apulum.

 
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Nicopolis ad Istrum

Nicopolis ad Istrum or Nicopolis ad Iatrum was a Roman and Early Byzantine town. Its ruins are located at the village of Nikyup, 20 km north of Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria. The site was placed on the Tentative List for consideration as a Wor

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Αὐρήλιος Στέφανος

Greek-speaking member of the community of Mithras followers from Apulum in the 2nd century.

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Chrestion

Freedman from Greek-speaking origin who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

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Dioscorus

Dioscorus is a freedman from the Greek-speaking part of the Empire who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

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Hyacinthus

Hyacinthus, like Hermadio, seems to have been one of the profets of Mithraism in the Dacian region.

 
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Altar from Sarmizegetusa by Hermadio

This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.

 
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Second altar from Tibiscum by Hermadio

This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.

 
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Mithraic stele from Alba Iulia

Mithraic stele, from Alba Iulia, Romania, with inscription.

 
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Altar of Hermadio from Tibiscum

This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.

 
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Column of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia

This is one of the at least three inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marcus to Mithras Invictus found in Alba Iulia, Romania.

 
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Altar of Sextus Syntrophus

This altar to Invictus Mythra (sic) was found in 1867 in ancient Maros Portum, now Sighișoara, Romania.

 
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Altar of Chrestion from Alba Iulia

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

 
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Ceanu Mic

 
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Maros Porto

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

 
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Potaissa

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

 
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Napoca

Napoca was a Roman castra in the province of Dacia.

 
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Tibiscum

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

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