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Mithras in Corsica et Sardinia

Corsica and Sardinia preserve a small island corpus within the western Mediterranean diffusion of Mithraism.

The Mithraic evidence documented in Corsica and Sardinia remains limited in scale, but it reflects the circulation of the cult through island communities connected to maritime routes, military presence and administrative networks of the western Roman Mediterranean.

Mithraic monuments of Corsica et Sardinia

 

Tauroctony from the Mithraeum of Lucciana

The archeologists have found three fragments of the Tauroctony of Lucciana, which includes Cautes and Cautopates.

Places in Corsica et Sardinia

 

Mariana

Mariana is a Roman site south of Biguglia, in the Haute-Corse département of the Corsica région of south-east France.

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