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Monumentum

Petrogenia of Aquincum

In Aquincum petrogenia, Mithras holds the usual dagger and torch as he emerges from the rock.
Nacimiento de Mitra del Mitreo de Victorinus, Aquincum.

Nacimiento de Mitra del Mitreo de Victorinus, Aquincum.
A. Pegler. 

 
 
The New Mithraeum
22 Jul 2009
Updated on 16 Jan 2022
 

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Limestone relief (H 0.98. Br 0.55) depicting Mithras' rockbirth. Mithras, naked and emerging from the rock to mid-thigh, holds a burning torch in his upraised left hand and a dagger in his right. The rock is surrounded by a serpent who raises its head towards the god.

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Mithraeum of Aquincum II in Victorinus's house

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Inscriptions to Cautes and Cautopates of Aquincum

These two inscriptions appear on two statue bases of the Mithraeum II of Aquincum.

Second petrogey of Aquincum

Another sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from the Mithraeum of Victorinus, in Aquincum.