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Fragmentary altar bases from Saarburg Mithraeum

Several fragmentary stone bases and altars without identifying marks, one of which has a semicircular hole in one of its sides, found in the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica.

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Venus bust and votive bronze eye-plaques from Les Bolards

A fine white marble bust of Venus, a head of a helmeted deity possibly Minerva, small female heads, and bronze eye-plaques analogous to those from the temples of Sequana and Apollo Vindonnus, found at the building south-west of the Mithraeum at Les…

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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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Cautes statuette raising torch from Eauze

A white marble statuette of Cautes, dressed in a long cloak and raising his torch with both hands without being cross-legged, found near Eauze (ancient Elusa) in the Armagnac region of Aquitania.

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Group of altars from the Housesteads Mithraeum

A group of four altars from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads): two found in 1822 bearing inscriptions Nos. 863 and 864, and two more found in 1898, one dedicated to Mars and Victoria (No. 865) and one to Cocidius (No. 866), the last possibly belonging to an adjacent shrine…

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Sculptural fragments with foot and lion head from the Mérida Mithraeum

Sculptural fragments from the Mithraeum at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida), comprising a naked foot beside tree-trunk remnants and fragments of a marble seat or table decorated with an acanthus-leaf from which emerge the head and neck of a lion.

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Inscription of Q. Baienus Proculus pater nomimus from Aquileia

An inscription copied at San Marco's in Venice in 1829, recording a dedication by Q. Baienus Proculus, pater nomimus, to Sol.

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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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Sculpted head from Florentia

Head formerly associated with Mithraic material but interpreted by Margarete Bieber as a dying Giant.

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Torchbearer statue from Torrita near Nazzano

A marble standing torchbearer statue in Phrygian cap, tunica, cloak and anaxyrides, found at Torrita near Nazzano in Etruria at the beginning of the nineteenth century, formerly in Trasi's house at Torrita and later in Rome; present location unknown.

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Funerary inscription fragment of a Mithraic sacerdos, Via Labicana, Rome

A marble inscription fragment found in the cemetery at the Duos Lauros along the Via Labicana outside Rome, commemorating a sacerdos of Sol Invictus Mithras who lived forty years.

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Funerary cippus of Sextineius Restitutus, pater sacrorum, Torre Pignatara

A marble funerary cippus from the Vigna Dionigi at Torre Pignatara outside Rome, dedicated to Sextineius Restitutus as most indulgent pater sacrorum by his children and mother, with a crown carved to the left of the final line.

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Cautes of the mitreo di Santa Prisca

The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.

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Mitreo di Santa Prisca

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

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Altar of Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus

The marble altar mentions Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus as Pater Sacrorum and Patrum and his wife Aconia Fabia Paulina.

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Mithraic inscription from Rome

Epigraphic testimony catalogued in the Année Épigraphique and Lugli’s Fontes for ancient Rome.

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Tauroctony from Viale Latino

Partial marble statue of Mithras as a bullkiller found near Viale Latino, about 200 meters from Porta San Giovanni.

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Tauroctony found on the Esquiline

This white marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on the Esquilino near the Church of Saint Lucy in Selci in Rome.

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Torchbearer statue from Antium

Penthelic marble statue of a standing torchbearer in Eastern attire, cross-legged, with head and torch arm broken off, probably 2nd century A.D., found at Antium (modern Anzio).

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Tauroctony from Naples

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

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