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Magister of a Bracaran sodalicium associated with the cult of Mithras in Roman Lusitania.

Marble inscription recording the construction of a Mithraic meeting place and the donation of a crater by Titus Flavius Artemidorus.

One of several dedications commissioned by the duumvir Marcus Antonius Victorinus in his Mithraeum of Aquincum, modern Budapest.

Member of a Mithraic community at Stockstadt who dedicated altars to Cautes and Cautopates.

Bright red sandstone altar from Mithraeum II at Stockstadt dedicated to Deo Cauti by Titus Martialius Candidus, found near the north podium.

Limestone slab dedicated to the invincible Sun by the governor Marcus Aurelius Decimus near the temple of Aesculapius.

Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.

Early Mithraic Leo from Novae whose name has been associated with the honey symbolism of the leonine grade.

Roman prefect commemorated in a rare dedication to Sol Apollo Anicetus Mithras at Rudchester.

Veteran recalled to imperial service and sole named devotee of Mithras currently attested at Grumentum.

Pater sacrorum attested in a funerary inscription from Murviel-lès-Montpellier, probably connected with the Mithraic community of Nemausus.

Fragment of a sandstone relief from Nida-Heddernheim depicting the torchbearer Cautopates.

Bronze statuette bearing a Mithraic inscription, subsequently demonstrated by Anna Sadurska to be a modern forgery.

Small bronze statuette in Oriental dress from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, depicting a figure no longer considered a Mithraic object.

Small bronze torchbearer statuette in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, with restored feet and a missing torch-bearing arm.

Bronze torchbearer statuette in a short tunic from the Cabinet des Médailles, holding an upraised torch.