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Small marble base with a dedication by T. Annius Lucullus, sevir and quinquennalis, to Martis Dendrophoris Ostiensium, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, dated to 143 A.D.

Small marble column dedicated by Iunia Zosime, mater, to Virtus Dendrophori from silver weighing two pounds, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Small marble base dedicated by C. Atilius Bassus, freedman and apparator of a priest of the Great Mother, to Silvanus dendrophoris, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Small marble base recording a donation to M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an antistes who dedicated objects to the god, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

Marble head of Helios-Mithras with curly hair and seven holes for fastening rays, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia, Lateran Museum.

Marble relief fragments from the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis at Ostia, preserving the bust of Sol in radiate crown, the raven's tail, the bust of Luna in crescent, and parts of the rocky border.

The Sacello delle Tre Navate near the Therms of the Sette Sapienti at Ostia, whose identification as a Mithraeum remains uncertain, with a decorated cult-niche but lacking typical Mithraic iconography.

Marble altar (H. 0.60 (with base 1.40) Br.

Marble slab with a fragmentary Latin inscription, walled into the right-hand side of the cult-niche in the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte at Ostia.

Marble cap mentioned by Visconti, subsequently identified as certainly belonging to the finds of the Mitreo degli Animali rather than the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale, Ostia.

1) A small lamp with two wicks, found in front of the niche with the Silvanus' mosaic.

Marble lion's head, which was fastened into a wall because the marble of the backside ends into a flat square (Visconti, 171; MMM 243, 1).

Around the altar, described in the preceding No.

Two fragments of a marble statue.

This marble statuette from Ostia depicts Cautopates lowering his torch beside a tapering rock associated with Mithras’ birth from stone.

Little building near K.

Two small altars, walled in the corners of the benches, with a representation of a jug (Becatti, PI. VII).

Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.

a) Three small altars of tuff.

CIL XIV 2256; MMM II No.