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The New Mithraeum Database

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Le Phallus

It is only when the penis stands up straight, that it emits semen, the source of life. It is then called the phallus and has been considered, since earliest prehistory the image of the creative principle, a symbol of the process by which the Supreme

Monumentum

Tauroctony jasper gem formerly in the Museo Borgiano

Yellow jasper fragment of unknown provenance, formerly in the Museo Borgiano, with a tauroctony on the obverse and a Mithraic figure on the reverse.

Monumentum

Double-sided limestone relief with raven and tauroctony from Val di Non

A double-sided limestone relief found near Meclo in Val di Non in 1895, now in the Museo Nazionale at Trento, with a raven and altar scene on the obverse and scenes on the reverse showing a figure attacking a kneeling Phrygian-capped person and Mithras as a bull-carrier…

Monumentum

Marble altar base with mythological reliefs from the Angera Mithraeum

A white marble altar base from the Mithraeum at Angera, decorated with palmettes, eagles carrying a festoon and rosettes on the front, dolphins on the reverse, and on each side mythological scenes of Jupiter and Neptune combatting Giants with snake-feet.

Monumentum

Head of Cautopates from Trier

A small limestone head of Cautopates, facing right, with a damaged nose and a stone pin on the reverse indicating it belonged to a relief, found on the slope of a hill near Heiligkreuz at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica.

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Bronze Medusa-head slab from Angleur

A small round bronze slab bearing a Medusa head, with serpents knotted below her chin and serpent heads emerging between two wings attached to the temples, with two hooks on the reverse, from the Mithraic sanctuary at Angleur near Liège in Belgica.

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Bronze wind-god slabs from Angleur

Three small bronze slabs bearing roughly modelled bearded heads of wind-gods, each with a wing on the head, with iron hooks on the reverse for fastening, found at the Mithraic sanctuary at Angleur near Liège in Belgica.

Monumentum

Altar of Ianussa from Königshoffen

Upper portion of a sandstone altar from the Mithraeum at Königshoffen, later reused as building material, bearing a dedication by Ianussa on both the front and reverse faces.

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Altar of M. Aurelius Bassus from Rome

Altar formerly in the house of the de Vellis family near the Carmelites in Rome and now in the Museo delle Terme, with a dedication to Silvanus on one side and on the reverse a record by M. Aurelius Bassus, priest of Sol, of having made a fountain flow.

Monumentum

Under-layer wall-paintings with Mithraic grade procession and dipinti, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Under-layer wall-paintings in the S. Prisca Mithraeum on the Aventine showing a further procession of Mithraic initiates in different colours, with partially legible dipinti including liturgical verses and acclamations.

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Gold coin of Hooerkes with Mithras holding lance and sword

Gold coin of the Scythian king Hooerkes, reverse showing Mithras (MIIPO) in tunic with lance and sword, north-west India, c. 87–129 A.D.

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Gold coin of Hooerkes with Mithras holding wreath

Gold coin of the Scythian king Hooerkes, reverse showing Mithras (MOPO) standing with wreath and staff, north-west India, c. 87–129 A.D.

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Gold coin of Hooerkes depicting Mithras

Gold coin of the Scythian king Hooerkes, reverse showing MIOPO (Mithras) as a goddess with cornucopia, north-west India, c. 87–129 A.D.

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Altar with rose and bull's head from Apulum

Lost limestone altar from Apulum, Dacia, decorated on the sides with a rose and serpent, on the reverse with a bull's head; the front bears a Mithraic inscription.

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