Daily Gazette/62

A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn during the sacred feast.

The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.

The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

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.