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Altar CIL VI 509 dedicated to Mater Deum and Invictus Mithras by Petronius Apollodorus, Rome

Altar with a Greek dedication to Magna Mater and Attis and a Latin inscription recording the dedication by Petronius Apollodorus, vir clarissimus and pater sacrorum of Invictus Mithras, following his taurobolium and criobolium with his wife, dated to 370 A.D…

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Marble base CIL VI 507 dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by G. Magius Donatus Severianus, Rome

Marble base with a dedication by G. Magius Donatus Severianus, vir clarissimus and pater sacrorum of Invictus Mithras, hierophant of Liber Pater and of the Hecatae, commemorating his taurobolium on 15 April 313 A.D.

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Large marble altar CIL VI 510 dedicated to Mater Deum and Sol Invictus Mithras by Aedesius, Rome

Large marble altar found near S. Giovanni in Laterano, dedicated by Sextilius Agesilaus Aedesius, pater patrum of Sol Invictus Mithras, to the Great Mother and Attis following his taurobolium and criobolium, dated to 376 A.D.

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White marble statue of cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire, Mus. Naz. Terme, Rome

White marble statue of a cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire from Rome with a broken upraised torch and head and feet lost, probably the companion piece of No. 504, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

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Marble slab dedicated to the two Invicti Augusti, bench p, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Marble slab walled into the ledge of bench p in the S. Prisca Mithraeum, with a brief dedication to the two Invicti domini Augusti.

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Graffito recording a birth on 20 November 202 A.D., S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Graffito on the outside of the left wall of the niche in the S. Prisca Mithraeum, recording a birth before daybreak on 20 November 202 A.D., a Saturday with an eighteenth-day moon, under the consulate of Severus and Antoninus.

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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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Two relief fragments of Mithras taurocotone with torchbearers in a grotto, Aventine, Rome

Two small fragments of a relief showing Mithras slaying the bull with the two torchbearers in a grotto, with traces of polychrome colouring, dated to the second half of the 2nd century A.D.

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Marble tablet CIL VI 725 dedicated to the Invictus by L. Aurelius Severus, Rome

Marble tablet recording the dedication of a shrine to the Invictus God by L. Aurelius Severus, under the presidency of pater Domitius Marcellinus, dated to 181 A.D.

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Inscription CIL VI 752 recording leontica initiations, Piazza S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription CIL VI 752 recording the transmission of the leontica grade by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 359 and 358 A.D.

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Inscription CIL VI 750 recording Mithraic initiations, Piazza S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription CIL VI 750 recording the transmission of the Persica and Heliaca grades by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 358 A.D.

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White marble statue of a torchbearer from the Castra Pretoria, Rome

White marble statue of a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with traces of red painting, found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882; head, arms, and feet are lost and the monument could not subsequently be traced.

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Second Mithraeum in Muti's gardens near the Via Nazionale, Rome

Possible Mithraeum discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens, described by Lanciani as a spelaeum cut in tufa with vestibule and cell with niches and altar, at the corner of the Via Nazionale and Via Venezia.

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Marble altar dedicated to the Invictus by Atticus pater from the Quirinal, Rome

Marble altar found in the pontifical gardens on the Quirinal Hill, with a dedication to the Invictus N(abarze?) by Atticus pater, decorated with a urceus on the left and a patera on the right.

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Large marble tablet fragment with Mithraic text from the Via Nazionale, Rome

Fragment of a large marble tablet with large letters of poor 5th-century workmanship, found on the Monte Quirinale near the Via Nazionale, bearing poetic Mithraic references to the mystes of Ceres and the Invincible Mithras.

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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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Sol Invictus inscription found near the Mitreo Sabazeo

Inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus, Omnipotent and Holy Caelestis, with Fortuna Lares and Tutelae, found near the Mitreo Sabazeo at Ostia, dedicated by Venerandus.

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Hollow edicola near altar K in the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

A small hollow edicola of simple square structure near altar K, with an opening for lamp offerings, from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale at Ostia.

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Statue fragment from Praeneste

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras tauroktonos with dog, serpent and scorpion, upper body and right leg missing, found at Praeneste (modern Palestrina).

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Sol Invictus inscription from Aesernia

Altar inscription dedicated to Deus Invictus by Verus, an antistes, from Aesernia (modern Isernia).

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