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The New Mithraeum Database

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CIMRM 169

Head, possibly of Mithras, wearing a Phrygian cap, found in the bed of the Millicri River, near Locri, Calabria.

 
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CIMRM 599

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

 
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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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Mitreo della Crypta Balbi

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

 
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Mitreo di San Clemente

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

 
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Tauroctony from Mithras and Tellus

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

 
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CIMRM 227

Marble statue of Cautes, found at Ostia. The head, one arm and the legs are missing. The figure wears a short tunic and raises the torch in the canonical upward gesture.

 
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Antium

Antium was an ancient coastal settlement in Latium, founded around the 11th century BC. A major stronghold of the Volsci before its conquest by Rome, its territory largely corresponds to modern Anzio and Nettuno.

 
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Ciciliano

Ciciliano is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium, located about 35 kilometres east of Rome.

 
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Cales

Cales was an ancient city of Campania, in today's comune of Calvi Risorta in southern Italy, belonging originally to the Aurunci/Ausoni, on the Via Latina.

 
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Venusia

Venosa is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area.

 
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Visentium

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

 
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Augusta Praetoria

Aosta is the principal city of the Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, 110 km north-northwest of Turin.

 
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Aveia Vestina

Aveia was an ancient town of the Vestini and Roman former bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

 
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Tiracia

 
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Capreae

Capri is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy.

 
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Bergomum

Bergamo is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately 40 km northeast of Milan, and about 30 km from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km from Garda and Maggiore.

 
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Pisignano

 
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Sublavio

Waidbruck is a comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres northeast of Bolzano.

 
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Panormus

Palermo is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.

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