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Cresces

Administrator, probably a slave of Pater Alfius Severus, who dedicated the main altar of the Mitreo di Marino.

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Alfius Severus

Pater (?) at Mithraeum of Marino.

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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.

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Caracalla

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

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Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius

Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.

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Alcimus

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.

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Appius Claudius Tarronius Dexter

Neapolitan senator who dedicated a tauroctonic relief to Mithras tauroctonus to the Almighty God Mithras.

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Marcus Valerius Maximianus

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

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Aurelius Agathopus

A Mithraic initiate attested in Pannonia Superior during the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE.

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Anttiocus

Member of the Mithraic community of Les Bolards and dedicator of a statue of Cautes.

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Lucius Caecilius Optatus

Tribune of the First Cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum at Bremenium together with his consacranei.

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Lucius Petreius Victor

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

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Vettius Agorius Praetextatus

One of the most eminent representatives of late antique pagan religiosity, combining high civic authority with deep initiation into multiple mystery traditions, including the cult of Mithras.

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Pylades

A vicarius of the imperial household dedicated to Mithras in Roman Angers.

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Aurelius Iustinianus

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

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Lucius Apuleius Marcellus

North African author, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician associated with the Mithraic milieu of Ostia.

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Ision

An imperial slave and customs administrator of the Illyrian tax system, he financed and built a Mithraic temple in Moesia Superior.

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Marcus Ulpius Maximus

Supervisor of the imperial couriers who offered an elaborate votive altar and ritual insignia to Mithras in Rome under Commodus.

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Caelius Hilarianus

One of the clearest examples of the late Roman aristocracy’s involvement in the mysteries of Mithras and other initiatory cults during the fourth century.

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Hector Corneliorum

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

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