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The New Mithraeum Database

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Candelabrum of Doryphorus

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

 
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Altar of Bergamo

This altar to Deo Invicto was found during the excavation of the Monastero Delle Benedettine di Santa Grata in Bergamo, with a bronze calf’s head on top.

 
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Altar of Pisignano

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

 
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Tauroctony in Copenhagen

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

 
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Tauroctony from Chrestos

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

 
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Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

 
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Tauroctony from Villa Borghese

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

 
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Tauroctony from via di Borgo

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

 
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Inscription of Valentinus Secundionis

This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.

 
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Cautes and Cautopates of Ostia found in 1939

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

 
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Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo

These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.

 
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Tauroctony from Palermo

The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.

 
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Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena

The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.

 
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Tauroctony/Repast of Castra Pretoria

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

 
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Stele of Acilius Pisonianus from Milan

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

 
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Album of Portus

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

 
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Tauroctony from the Mitreo dell'Esquilino

This simple relief of Mithras killing the bull without his companions Cautes and Cautopates was found in the so-called Mithraeum of the Esquilino, Rome.

 
Locus

Carsulae

Carsulae was a Roman municipium in the region of Umbria, now preserved as an archaeological site, about 4 km north of the small town of San Gemini. Its foundation dates back to 220 BC with the construction of the Via Flaminia.

 
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Inscription on a leonteum of Umbria

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

 
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Inscription of Aurelius Mithres

This monument, found in the Domus Flavia in Rome, bears an inscription by a certain Aurelius Mithres.

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