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Monuments from Roma: TNMdB

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Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

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Tauroctony relief from Villa Doria Pamphili

Relief of bluish marble in the Casino of the Villa Doria Pamphili showing Mithras slaying the bull with the usual animals, cross-legged torchbearers, and Sol in a quadriga and Luna in a biga in the upper corners.

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Inscribed base from S. Silvestro in Capite

This monument records the transmission of the patrica and the presentation of the cryfii, ritual acts associated with Mithraic initiation.

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Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano

One of the earliest securely dated Mithraic inscriptions, documenting the cult’s early presence within the imperial household.

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Mitreo del Circo Massimo

The Mithraeum near the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.

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Slab with dedicatory poem from near S. Silvestro, Rome

Large marble slab found in 1648 near S. Silvestro in Capite, inscribed with a Latin dedicatory poem forming a cypher-acrostic for TAMESIUS and AUGENTIUS, with records of leontica and chrysos initiations, dated to 362 A.D.

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Inscription recording leontica initiations, S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription recording the transmission of the leontica grade by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 359 and 358 A.D.

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Inscription recording Mithraic initiations from S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription CIL VI 750 recording the transmission of the Persica and Heliaca grades by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 358 A.D.

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Small relief of primitive Tauroctony at Museo Capitolino

Small marble relief from the Aventine showing a primitive representation of Mithras slaying the bull, without torchbearers or Sol and Luna.

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Altar of Stertinius Carpus from the Ponte Emilio Area, Rome

This altar bears an inscription to the health of the emperor Commodus by a certain Marcus Aurelius, his father and two other fellows.

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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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Cautes from Forum of Caesar

Upper fragment of a marble relief depicting Cautes, discovered in the Forum of Caesar in Rome.

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Marble base from Rome by Ulpius Paulus

Small marble base, found in one of the private houses along the Via Sacra nearly opposite to the Basilica of Constantine, Rome.

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Funerary inscription fragment of a Mithraic sacerdos, Via Labicana, Rome

A marble inscription fragment found in the cemetery at the Duos Lauros along the Via Labicana outside Rome, commemorating a sacerdos of Sol Invictus Mithras who lived forty years.

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Marble altar to Sol Invictus Mithras from Via Venti Settembre, Rome

A marble altar found in 1873 between the Baths of Diocletian and the Via di Porta Pia in Rome, dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Sextus with Titus Flavius Ianuarius as antistes.

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Inscription of Aelius Victorinus the veteran, outside Porta Pia, Rome

An inscription to Sol Invictus Mithras found in the Vigna Patritii outside the Porta Pia in Rome, dedicated by Aelius Victorinus, a veteran of the emperors honourably discharged, with M. Aurelius Romulus as antistes and sacerdos of the cult.

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Marble slab of T. Flavius Eutychus from Comodilla's catacombs, Rome

A marble slab reused as a tombstone in Comodilla's catacombs near the Via Ostiense in Rome, originally inscribed by Titus Flavius Eutychus as a gift to the Invincible and Holy god.

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Marble dedication tablet of Q. Pompeius Primigenius from outside Porta Sant'Agnese, Rome

A marble dedication tablet found in the Vigna Curtii Palloni outside the Porta Sant'Agnese near the Praetorian Camp in Rome, recording the construction of a sacrarium dedicated to Sol Invictus by Q. Pompeius Primigenius, pater and sacerdos, under Septimius Severus and Caracalla, 199–209 AD…

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Funerary cippus of Sextineius Restitutus, pater sacrorum, Torre Pignatara

A marble funerary cippus from the Vigna Dionigi at Torre Pignatara outside Rome, dedicated to Sextineius Restitutus as most indulgent pater sacrorum by his children and mother, with a crown carved to the left of the final line.

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Funerary inscription of Equitius Arescon, pater sacrorum, Rome

A funerary inscription found in the Vigna Nari outside Rome in 1734, set up by Iunia Thallusa for her husband Equitius Arescon, who held the rank of pater sacrorum in the Mithraic mysteries.

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