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Marble relief fragment of Mithras from Apulum

This marble fragment from Apulum preserves the head of Mithras beneath an arch together with a raven and the remains of Sol’s radiate crown.

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La grotta del Mitreo

The site was destroyed in the 5th century but some elements, including the benches, can still been seen.

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Tauroctony relief from Apulum

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.

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Mithraic vase of Lezoux

This terracotta vase features prolific decoration, including Mithras Tauroctonos, Fortuna, Cautes, a dog and Pan playing a syrinx.

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Cautes and Cautopates of Marquise

The two fellows of Mithras from Marquise, Boulogne-sur-Mer, are fully naked but for the cloak and the Phrygian cap.

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Lucius Agrius Calendius

Benefactor of the Imperial Palace Mithraeum and possible member of Ostia’s African community.

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Gaius Valerius Vitalis

Mithraic priest and dedicator of the leontocephalic deity from the Fagan Mithraeum at Ostia.

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Altar by Paterna from Rheder

A votive altar dedicated to Deus Invictus Mithras by Paterna, among the few women explicitly associated with Mithraic worship.

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Uninscribed altars from Kreta

Eight uninscribed sandstone altars from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior.

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Altar with uncertain dedication from Kreta

Sandstone altar with patera from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior, bearing a Greek inscription of uncertain reading, possibly a thanksgiving to Mithras.

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Autel of Straton from Kreta

Straton, son of Straton, consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.

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Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.

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Altar to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Cocidius and the genius loci from Housesteads

An altar found in the west corner of the sanctuary at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1898, recording a dedication to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the god Cocidius and the genius of the place by soldiers of the Second Augustan Legion on garrison duty.

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Bronze medallion of Gordian III with tauroctony

The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

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Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius

Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.

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Rock-cut tauroctony relief from Rožanec

Carved directly into the rock of the Rožanec sanctuary, this tauroctony relief preserves an unusually complete composition.

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Altar of Victorinus to Fons Perennis

One of several dedications commissioned by the duumvir Marcus Antonius Victorinus in his Mithraeum of Aquincum, modern Budapest.

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Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection

Black jasper gem from the Seyrig collection, depicting Mithras radiate slaying the bull, with the god grasping the muzzle with the left hand and driving a knife into the animal's neck with the right.

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Chalcedony tauroctony gem from Paris

Fragment of yellowish chalcedony in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, formerly in the Millingen collection, depicting the standard tauroctony.

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Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris

Rock-crystal gem in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with the standard iconographic programme.

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