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Aion statue on a crescent-decorated cone from Rome

White marble statue of the lion-headed Aion standing on a cone decorated with a crescent, entwined in seven coils of a serpent and pressing claw-like hands against his body, each grasping a key; formerly in the Museo Torlonia, Rome.

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Fragment of small white marble relief of Mithras tauroktonos from Palazzo Rondinini, Rome

Fragment of a small white marble relief showing Mithras slaying the bull with the dog, serpent and scorpion, formerly walled in the inner court of the Palazzo Rondinini (now Palazzo Sanseverino), Corso No. 518.

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Marble relief of Mithras grasping the bull's horn from Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome

Marble relief formerly in the Palazzo Giustiniani showing Mithras slaying the bull while grasping one of its horns, with the dog, serpent, scorpion and torchbearers, and a krater before the feet of Cautes.

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Two inscriptions dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras from the Aventine, Rome

Two inscriptions (a and b) from the Aventine Dolichenum sanctuary relating to Sol Invictus Mithras, one a fragmentary dedication and the other mentioning a signum and providentissimus.

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Two Mithraic monuments from the Dolichenum excavations on the Aventine, Rome

Two Mithraic monuments discovered during the 1935 excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine, together with statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules, now in the Museo Capitolino; the only certain Mithraic finds from a Dolichenum.

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Marble relief with Sol, Jupiter Dolichenus and Luna from the Castra, Rome

Marble relief with the dressed busts of Sol with five rays, a long-bearded man, and Luna with crescent, found in the camp of the equites singulares near the Scala Santa, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

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Well and oblong tombs in the entrance room of San Clemente, Rome

Well with a drainage pipe and two oblong brick-built tombs in the room to the left of the entrance of the Mithraeum of San Clemente, one tomb filled with refuse and a large number of animal bones, particularly swine.

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Inscription to Mithras from Tyana

Brief dedicatory inscription to Mithras the Just, found at Tyana (modern Kemerhisar), Cappadocia.

Locus

Sutrium (Sutri)

Sutri is an Ancient town, modern comune and former bishopric in the province of Viterbo, about 50 kilometres from Rome and about 30 kilometres south of Viterbo. The modern comune of Sutri has a few more than 5,000 inhabitants.

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Fragmentary base inscription from Stockstadt

Fragmentary inscription from the base of a statue at Mithraeum I, Stockstadt, found in context but formerly misattributed to the praetorium

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Zodiac signs on the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

The rich mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres include the the signs of the Zodiac.

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Tauroctony from Capri

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Biljanovac

White marble tauroctony relief in several fragments from the Mithraeum at Biljanovac, Moesia Superior, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.

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Inscription of Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius from Rome

Monumental inscription honouring the senator and Mithraic pater Kamenius together with his numerous priestly offices and initiatory roles.

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Mithraic relief from Ostia

Relief featuring an enigmatic agricultural implement interpreted either as a scythe or an early type of plough.

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Cautes relief from Viminacium

Right portion of a limestone Cautes relief from Kostolac, ancient Viminacium in Moesia Superior, depicting Cautes standing on an elevation in Oriental dress — not cross-legged — with a semicircle above him, probably Sol's nimbus.

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Altar of Aurelius Rufus from Romula

Sandstone altar from Romula, Dacia, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Aurelius Rufus ex voto, with the busts of Sol and Luna flanking the text.

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Tauroctony from Coll. Géza Kuun from Sarmizegetusa

Bluish marble tauroctony fragment from the Mithraeum at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia, formerly in the collection of Count Géza Kuun at Mintia, preserving Mithras killing the bull.

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Rock-birth statue from Apulum

Sandstone rock-birth statue from Apulum, Dacia, depicting the naked Mithras emerging from a rock encircled by a snake; head and arms are lost.

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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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