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The dedicator of this altar was a slave in the service of a high official, the prefect Gaius Antonius Rufus, known from other inscriptions.

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

The Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

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

In the Mithraeum of S. Capua Veteres, Cautes stands between two laurel trees.

Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

The vault of the Mithraeum of S. Capua Vetere is ornamented with stars with holes in their centres, which used to contain colourful glass decorations.

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere includes a marble relief depicting a child Eros guiding Psyche through the dark.

This lion-headed marble was found on the ruins of the Alban Villa of Domitianus.

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

The Mithraeum of Szony has the form of a grotto and the entrance is on the west side.

Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

In this fresco from Dura Europas, Mithras hunts accompanied by the lion and the serpent.