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Relief of Cautopates from Bonna

Limestone relief fragment showing Cautopates beside traces of a tauroctony scene.

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Inscribed relief fragment from Bonna

Sandstone relief fragment with a cup above an inscription panel, probably from a Mithraic monument.

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Torchbearer statuette from Bonna

Fragmentary limestone statuette of a cross-legged torchbearer originally attached to a tauroctony relief.

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Mithraic inscription of Axius Verus and companions

Dedication to Mithras from Juslenville by Axius Verus, Quintus Vetius and Probinus.

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Statue once interpreted as Mithras from Aveiro

Bearded nude statue formerly claimed to be Mithraic but later rejected as a seventeenth-century sculpture unrelated to the cult.

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Mithraic inscriptions from Interamna

Group of inscriptions from Umbria including one entry reassigned to Interamna Lirenas in Latium.

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Tauroctony from Dragus

The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.

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Two-sided relief from Konjic

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

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Possible Aion statue from the Via Cassia near Rome

A statue found along the Via Cassia about six kilometres from Rome, tentatively identified as an Aion entwined by a serpent but possibly representing Atargatis according to Vermaseren, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

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Tauroctony relief fragment from near Nomento, Via Nomentana

A white marble tauroctony relief fragment found at the hill known as Carnale near Nomento on the Via Nomentana, about twenty kilometres from Rome, now in the storerooms of the Museo Nazionale in Rome, dated to the third century AD.

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Decorated marble base with Mithraic scenes from Rome

Marble base formerly in the Villa Negroni and then the Museo Borgia at Velletri, with bas-reliefs on three sides showing Sol in a quadriga, initiates in Oriental dress and other Mithraic scenes; the collection is now dispersed among museums in Naples and Rome…

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Arula of L. Spedius Quadratus from Rome

Small marble altar from the house of the guardian of the Cancelleria in Rome, with a dedication of an altar to Sol by L. Spedius Quadratus.

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Arula of C. Iulius Helius the blacksmith from Rome

Small marble altar from the house of the guardian of the Cancelleria in Rome, dedicated to Sol Sacrum in fulfilment of a vow by C. Iulius Helius, a blacksmith, decorated with a urceus on the left and a patera on the right.

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Marble arula of Q. Codius Philo from Rome

Small square marble altar found in the house of Volterra on the Monte Pincio in Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus in fulfilment of a vow by Q. Codius Philo.

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Marble tablet of Brumasius from Rome

Marble tablet with a dedication by Brumasius to the holy table of Sol Mithras, set up in the presence of the pater with all the initiates.

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Marble tablet of Felix Messala from Rome

Marble tablet with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Felix Messala together with the initiates Catellus and Dianus, decorated with a branch on each side.

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Marble tablet dedicated by leones from Rome

Marble tablet in the Vatican Musea, Galleria Lapidaria, with a dedication to the Invictus and Urania by two initiates of the Leo grade, the text divided by four feet pointing in opposite directions as a pro itu et reditu formula.

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Marble cippus CIL VI 723 dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by M. Aurelius Euprepes, Rome

Marble cippus from the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by M. Aurelius Euprepes, erected after a vision through the presidents Bictorinus pater and Ianuarius, dated to 184 A.D.

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Inscription CIL VI 724 dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by M. Aurelius Euprepes, Villa Giustiniani, Rome

Marble inscription from the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia, dedicated by M. Aurelius Euprepes, freedman of the three Emperors, to Sol Invictus Mithras through the priests Calpurnius and Ianuarius, dated to 194 A.D.

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Base of bluish marble with encircling serpent, Villa Giustiniani, Vatican Musea

Base of bluish marble formerly in the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia and now in the Vatican Musea, Cortile della Pigna, with a round pedestal encircled by a bearded crested serpent biting its own tail, probably supporting a statue of Aion.

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