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Stone relief of a torchbearer from Chester, Grosvenor Museum

A stone relief from Chester (ancient Deva), now in the Grosvenor Museum, depicting a cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire pointing his torch downwards with his right hand.

 
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Statue of a standing torchbearer from Chester (now lost)

A small stone statue found at Chester (ancient Deva) in 1853 built into a cellar wall in White Friars, still seen by Stukeley in 1725 but now lost, depicting a standing torchbearer in Eastern attire and cross-legged, holding a torch downwards with both hands…

 
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Statue of Cautopates pointing torch at rock from Cataio

A marble statue from the south wall of the gallery of the Castle at Cataio in the Veneto, depicting a cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire (Cautopates) with a sorrowful expression, standing beside a rock at which he points his torch.

 
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Cautopates relief from Torcello

A marble relief found on the small island of San Michele di Zampanigo near Torcello in the Venetian lagoon, now in the Museum of Torcello, showing a cross-legged figure in Eastern attire resting his head in his right hand and holding a downward-pointing torch (Cautopates), framed by poppies…

 
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Square base from a possible Mithraeum at Trento

A square base found in 1868 near the Sardagna waterfall at San Niccolò beside the ancient Roman road in Trento (ancient Tridentum), in ground full of debris suggesting a nearby necropolis and possibly a Mithraeum.

 
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Possible Mithraeum remains from San Zeno, near Trento

Wall remnants found deep underground at San Zeno near Trento, possibly indicating a Mithraeum, discovered alongside Roman coins, lost bronze figures and a small gold disc decorated with an ear of corn or a sword.

 
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Tauroctony relief fragment from San Zeno am Nonsberg, Trentino

A coarse-grained yellowish-white marble tauroctony relief fragment found walled in at San Zeno am Nonsberg in the Trentino in 1911, now in the Museum Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck, showing part of Mithras slaying the bull and Cautes raising a flaming torch.

 
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Pottery fragment with lion and bull's head from Trier

A small pottery fragment of uncertain find-spot, probably from Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica, showing a lion walking to the right before a bull's head, with palm-like foliage, tentatively interpreted as Mithraic by Loeschcke but considered too doubtful by Vermaseren…

 
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Coin hoard from Saarburg Mithraeum

A collection of 284 coins, spanning from 254 to 395 AD and mostly of the fourth century, found in the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, indicating that the sanctuary was founded under the Severan dynasty and destroyed in the fourth century…

 
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Oversized stone hand with projection from Saarburg Mithraeum

A stone hand of more than natural size from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, with the thumb touching the index finger and a rectangular projection in the palm on which an object was probably fastened.

 
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Cautopates fragment on terra-sigillata from Alesia

Five fragments of a red terra-sigillata vessel showing Cautopates with his torch pointing downwards, in Eastern attire and cross-legged, with the hoof of the bull's hindleg before him, found at Alesia (Mont-Auxois) in Lugdunensis.

 
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Ceramic finds indicating fire destruction at the Housesteads Mithraeum

Ceramic finds from both excavations of the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), comprising red and thin black-glazed pottery fragments together with a silver coin of Faustina Minor, indicating the sanctuary was in use before 253 A.D. and was most likely destroyed by fire…

 
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Limestone statue of Cautopates from the Housesteads Mithraeum

A limestone statue from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), depicting Cautopates in Eastern attire standing cross-legged on a base and pointing his torch downwards, with head lost.

 
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White marble relief with bull and fig-tree from Italica

A small four-sided white marble relief of uncertain Mithraic attribution, found at Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville), depicting a bull walking to the right on the front, a fig-tree on the back, five ears of wheat on the right side, and damaged vine tendrils with grapes on the left…

 
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Mithraeum of Housesteads

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

 
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Mithréum de Mackwiller

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

 
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Mithraeum of Burham

To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.

 
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Altar of Benifayó

This altar found in Benifaió, València, was erected by a slave called Lucanus.

 
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Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla

The monument of San Juan de la Isla (Asturias) devoted to Mithras was preserved in the portico of the main church until 1843.

 
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Tauroctony from Santiponce

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.

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