Mithras in Etruria

Mitreo di Sutri

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

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Mitreo di Vulci

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

Mitreo di Cosa

The Mithraeum was inserted into the basement of the basilica-theater by the 3rd century.

Tauroctony on display in Boston

This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.

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Heliodromus inscription of Cerveteri

This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.

Petrogeny from Florence

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

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A marble head in the Uffizi Gallery, long interpreted as a “dying Alexander,” but probably representing Mithras tauroctonos.

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Mitreo di Capodimonte

The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.

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Marble statue (H. 0.65), found at Torrita near Nazzano in the beginning of the 19th century.

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CIL XI 3865; MMM II No.

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Marble relief (H. 0.63 Br. 1.07 D. 0.025-0.03), broken in two pieces.

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Relief of peperino, fixed in a great height into a wall of the old farm "Le Capa- nacce", situated on the main road Le Capranicie-Vetralla, about 6 km from Vicus Matrini along the Via Cassia.

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Caere

Caere is the Latin name given by the Romans to one of the larger cities of southern Etruria, modern Cerveteri, some 50-60 kilometres north-west of Rome.

Cosa

Cosa was an ancient Roman city near the present Ansedonia in southwestern Tuscany, Italy.

Florentia

Florentia was a Roman city in the Arno valley from which Florence originated.

Luna

Carrara is a town and comune in Tuscany, in northern Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there.

Sitrium

Sutri is an Ancient town, modern comune and former bishopric in the province of Viterbo, about 50 kilometres from Rome and about 30 kilometres south of Viterbo. The modern comune of Sutri has a few more than 5,000 inhabitants.

Visentium

Visentium was the Latin name of one of the minor Etruscan cities.