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Architectural fragments from possible second sanctuary at Les Bolards

Architectural elements including marble plaques, mouldings, entablature sections, and acanthus friezes, found in a building about 30–40 metres south-west of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis, suggesting the possible existence of a second sanctuary…

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Small heads in Phrygian caps from Les Bolards

Two small heads in Phrygian caps, possibly belonging to a tauroctony of Mithras, together with a fragment of a bull's foot and the mouth and neck of the dog, found at the Mithraeum of Les Bolards (ancient Venetonimagus) in Lugdunensis.

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Limestone statue of Aion from the Housesteads Mithraeum

A limestone statue from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), representing a standing male figure in short tunic with bare legs and feet, arms held tight along the body with clenched fists once holding attributes now lost, with part of a snake on his right arm…

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Limestone tauroctony relief from the Housesteads Mithraeum

A large limestone tauroctony relief in several fragments from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), the vaulted main fragment showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes raising his torch beside the bull's foreleg, a crescent of Luna in the upper corner…

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Marble statue of Bonus Eventus from the Walbrook Mithraeum, London

A white marble statue from the Mithraeum at Walbrook in London, depicting Bonus Eventus standing in a long hanging cloak, leaning on a ship's stem, holding a cornucopia against his shoulder and a patera above a burning altar from the back of which a…

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Inscription "Deo Mithrae" from a fullonica at Pula

A brief inscription reading D(eo) M(ithrae), found inside a fullonica at Pola (modern Pula) in a room that had once served as a vestibule.

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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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Tauroctony lower right from Oltenia

Right lower corner of a marble tauroctony relief from Oltenia, Dacia, preserving the lower portion of Mithras killing the bull.

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Tauroctony relief from Oltenia

Limestone tauroctony relief from Oltenia, Dacia, of unknown exact provenance, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.

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Mithras head of Walbrook

The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.

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Dionysus group marble of London

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

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Altar of Firmidius Severinus from Geneva

This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

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Inscription of two Gessii from Sentinum

Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.

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Tauroctony relief in peperino from near Vicus Matrini, Via Cassia

A badly damaged tauroctony relief carved in peperino, fixed high into a wall of the old farm known as Le Capanacce on the Via Cassia near Vicus Matrini in Etruria, showing Mithras as a bullkiller in a vaulted cave with serpent, the head and left arm of the god lost…

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Tauroctony from Nesce

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

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Stucco tauroctony room from Agurzano near Rome

A subterranean room with a stucco depiction of Mithras slaying the bull, probably from the fourth century, discovered at Agurzano near Ponte Mammolo on the Via Tiburtina outside Rome.

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Tauroctony statue from the Piazza Giudea area, Rome

A tauroctony statue once in the Collection Santa Croce near the Piazza Giudea in Rome, showing Mithras as bullkiller with a broad belt around the bull's body, the arms of the god and the bull's horns broken off.

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Tauroctony relief with white enamel pupils from Rome

A tauroctony relief from Rome, formerly in the Hoffmann Collection, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, with the god's pupils fashioned from white enamel and the whole piece heavily restored.

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Tauroctony 593

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

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