Cult of Mithra, slaves, portorium and salinae in Dacia
(2024) Contextualizing ‘Oriental’ cults. New light on the evidence between the Danube and the Adriatic — ISBN: [978-953-379-107-4], p. 263-279, published
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- This article proposes a new interpretation of the inscriptions of the mithraeum discovered in Apulum in the 2010s. Their dedicator, Vitalis, would not have been a slave of the portorium but an arcarius of the conductor salinarum, P. Aelius Marius, for whose salvation he erected an altar. We also return to the hypothesis defended by the editors of these inscriptions, who considered the latter to be a “major node” in a supra-local network of Mithraic worshippers. If there was a Mithraic network, it was more likely to revolve around the servile agents of the salt-mines tenants, who should be recognised as having their own agency
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Van Haeperen, F. (2024). Cult of Mithra, slaves, portorium and salinae in Dacia. In Inga Vilogorac Brčić, Gabrielle Kremer, Aleksandra Nikoloska, Zagreb (ed.), Contextualizing ‘Oriental’ cults. New light on the evidence between the Danube and the Adriatic (p. p. 263-279). Filozofski fakultet. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/233900