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

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

This fragmented altar of a certain Caius Iulius Crescens, found in the Mithraeum of Friedberg, bears an inscription to the Mother Goddesses.

This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.

A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

This lost monument bears an inscription to Cautes by a certain Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus.

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

This fragmented altar was erected by two brothers from the Legio II Adiutrix who also built a temple.

The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

Seminario de Investigación Cultos orientales e Iconografía Máster en Arqueología del Mediterráneo en la Antigüedad Clásica.

The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’