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The New Mithraeum Database

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Ceremonial sword of Riegel

The Mithraic sword found in the Riegel Mithraeum may have been used as a prop during rituals.

 
Monumentum

Aion of Oxyrhynchus

According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.

 
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Taurcotony statue of the Esquiline Hill

Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

 
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Tauroctony relief of the Esquiline

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

 
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Mithras petrogenitus of the Esquilino

The relief of Mithras being born from the rock of the Esquiline shows the young god naked, as usual, with a torch and a dagger in his hands.

 
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Tauroctony from the Cortile del Belvedere

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 413 a

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

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 1002

According to Pagenstecher in ] dI 27, 1912, 171f in the Museum at Calena there must be a fragment of pottery with a Mithras-representation, which should come from Gallia.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 998

Two stone altars (H. 0.38 Br. 0.13 D. 0.09).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 994

Three fragments of a plate (diam. 0.14), found at Treves, in the pottery's work- shops along the Ziegelstrasze near the Roman Wall.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 989

Head in limestone from the Jura (H. 0.18) found "bei der Anlage des (von der Hospitalwiese) nach Heiligkreuz hinauffiihrenden Weges" on the slope of the hill (1864).

 
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CIMRM 981

Among the remnants of numerous lamps, a small terracotta lamp (H. 0.038 Br. 0.07) draws the attention.

 
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CIMRM 980

Numerous bones of animals, such as birds (mostly hens), beasts of prey (jaw- bones and fangs of wolves, foxes and martens) and the muzzle of a wild boar.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 976

Several bases and altars were discovered, mostly fragmentary and without any indication.

 
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CIMRM 975

A hand (H. 0.18 Br. 0.12) of more than natural size.

 
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CIMRM 974

Two female heads (H. 0.165 Br. 0.14 D.O.12; H. 0.13 Br. 0.085 D. 0.09).

 
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CIMRM 971

The upper part of a dressed male person (H. 0.20 Br. 0.23 D. 0.105) with a wreath or broad ring in his r.

 
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CIMRM 961

Cylindrical bronze peg (diam. 0.18) with a lion's head in the middle.

 
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CIMRM 957

Small round bronze slab (H. 0.20 Br. 0.19) with Medusa-head, the serpents of which are knotted together below her chin.

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