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The New Mithraeum Database

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Asia

Roman Asia preserves a rich and diverse body of Mithraic evidence connected to the major cities of western Anatolia.

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Bithynia et Pontus

Bithynia and Pontus preserve important evidence for the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Black Sea and northwestern Anatolia.

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Aurelius Iustinianus

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

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Mithraeum IV of Ptuj

A probable Mithraic sanctuary at Poetovio, identified by Vermaseren as the so-called Mithraeum IV on the basis of four associated inscriptions.

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Marcus Ulpius Maximus

Supervisor of the imperial couriers who offered an elaborate votive altar and ritual insignia to Mithras in Rome under Commodus.

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Hector Corneliorum

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta by means of a ‘divine vision’.

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Pottery depicting Mithras

This fragment of pottery depicting Mithras may have come from Gallia.

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Aion of Orazio Muti

This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.

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Aion from the gardens of Muti

The lion-headed marble from Muti's gardens has a serpent entwined in four coils around his body.

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Tauroctony on intaglio

Large intaglio engraved with Mithras as bull slayer surrounded by a peculiar version of Cautes and Cautopates and other celestial deities.

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Tauroctony relief from Fleischmann Collection

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.

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Tauroctony from Circo Massimo

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.

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Tauroctony from Antium

This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.

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Sol and Luna fenster from Rome

Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.

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Relief fragment from Ptuj

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

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Lion relief from Nemrut Dağı

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

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Graffiti to Kamerios from Dura Europos Mithraeum

The text mentions a certain Kamerios, described as immaculate miles.

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Stone tauroctony relief from Rome

Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

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Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade

Two marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates discovered in the Mithraeum of Rusicade, accompanied by symbolic animals including a lion, scorpion, dolphin and bird.

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Tauroctony from Santo Domingo de Silos

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

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