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Mithras at the Museo Arqueológico de Córdoba by @jaime.alvar. This Sunday for those of you in the area.

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Mithréum d’Orbe-Boscéaz

The site of Orbe-Boscéaz, Switzerland, also known as Boscéay, is renowned for its mosaics and mithraic temple.

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Bob Baer

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Mount Nemrut Dağı

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

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#84

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Mitreo della domus dei capitelli

Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.

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Aion of Vienne

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

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Head of dadophore from Fürth

This sandsotne head with a Phrygian, found in Fürth in 1730, probably belonged to a torach-bearer.

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Mithraeum I of Ptuj

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

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Bust of Sol from San Clemente

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.

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Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.

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Petrogeny with a sheaf of wheat of Cologne

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

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Torchbearer restored as Paris

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

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Torchbearer of Porta Portese

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

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Inscription of Flavius Antistianus from Rome

This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.

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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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Petrogeny from Bingen

This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.

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Aion of Porsione

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

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Graffito of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana

In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.

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Tauroctony in Copenhagen

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

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