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Red ware dish fragment with tauroctony from Rome

Fragment of a red ware dish from Rome, now in the Akademisches Kunstmuseum at Bonn, with a representation of Mithras as a bull-killer sitting astride the bull with a flying cloak.

 
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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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Graffito on the back wall of room M, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Partially legible graffito scratched on the back wall of room M in the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome.

 
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Wall-painting of initiation scene on the left bench column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.

 
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Wall plaster inscription fragment from Dura-Europos

Fragmentary inscription on wall plaster from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria, with partially legible text.

 
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Cautopates with downward torch from Sarmizegetusa

Marble fragment from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving the middle part of Cautopates holding a downward torch in his left hand.

 
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Torchbearer torso with downward torch from Sarmizegetusa

Fragment of a marble relief from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, preserving the bust of a person in a tunic with a right arm and hand holding a torch pointed downward.

 
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Cautopates with downward torch from Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Cautopates with the torch pointing downward; head and feet are lost.

 
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Marble water-basin from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Large marble water-basin on a column from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, decorated with a central rosette; it probably stood near the entrance of the sanctuary.

 
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Walking figure fragment from Rückingen

Lower part of a sandstone relief fragment from Rückingen preserving only the lower body of a walking figure, legs lost

 
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Arm with stars and a swastika

This bronze arm, with stars and a swastika, was once thought to be part of a Mithras statuette but has since been dismissed as unrelated to the Mithras cult.

 
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Tauroctonia de Walbrook

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

 
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Altar of Secundinus from Bad Ischl

A certain Secundinus, steward of the emperor, dedicated this altar to Mithras in Noricum, today Austria.

 
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Altar of Poreč

This stone altar found in Poreč was dedicated by two freedmen to the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.

 
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Inscription of Victorinus from Tibur

This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

 
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Inscription by Propinquos of Carnuntum

On this slab, Gaius Iulius Propinquos indicates that he made a wall of the Mithraeum at his own expense.

 
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Wallachia

The findspot of this monument is unknown, though it has traditionally been associated with the historical region of Wallachia.

 
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Schwarzerden (Freisen)

Schwarzerden lies within the upland frontier hinterland of southwestern Germania.

 
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Tauroctony relief from Flavia Solva

White marble relief fragment from near Klein-Wagna, ancient Flavia Solva in Noricum, preserving part of a tauroctony scene including the bull, Mithras's dagger, and the torchbearers.

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