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The New Mithraeum Database

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Marcus Ulpius Linus

Bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina.

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Sextus Syntrophus

Syntrofus, whose Greek cognomen means companion, is part of a modest Mithraic community in Apulum.

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Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

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Tauroctony relief from Apulum

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.

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Taurcotony of Secundinus

This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.

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Tauroctony gemstone from Ploiești

This gemstone depicting Mithras killing the bull, preserved in the Ploiești Museum, originated from Prahova County or south of the Danube area.

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Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa

The large number of monuments found at the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa and the sheer size of the temple are unusual.

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Altar of Ceanu Mic

This limestone altar to Sol Invictus Mithra was found at Turda in 1905.

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Altar of Valerianus from Ceanu Mic

This is the second altar found in Ceanu Mic to date, dedicated to an Invictus being.

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Inscription of Dioscorus

One of the three known inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marci, found in Alba Iulia, Romania.

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Altar of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

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Coin of Septimius Severus and god on horseback

Coin of Istrus, Moesia Inferior, showing Caracalla on one side and a god on horseback (Mithras ?) on the other.

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Altar by Valerius Maximianus from Apulum

This monument bears an inscription to Mithras by a well-known general of the Roman Empire.

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Cautes of Transylvania

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

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Tauroctony from Aelius Maximus of Turda

This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.

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Tauroctony from Aurelios Stephanos from Sibiu

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.

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Tauroctony from Alba Iulia with collared dog

This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.

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Tauroctony from Cluj

Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.

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Tauroctony relief of Alba Iulia

The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.

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Tauroctony from Euhemerus from Alba Iulia

Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.

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