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The New Mithraeum Database

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Aion of Vienne

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

 
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Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

 
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Inscription of Chyndonax

This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.

 
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Petrogeny of Florence

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

 
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Mithréum de Dyo

A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.

 
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Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.

 
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Tauroctony of Arshawi-Kibar

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

 
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Altar of Castlesteads

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

 
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Triptic of Tróia

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

 
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Tauroctony of Euthices from Apulum

This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.

 
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Mithräum von Dormagen

Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.

 
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Mithraeum of Močići

The Mithraeum of Mocici was situated in a grotto at one hour's walk fomr the ancient Epidaurum.

 
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Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

 
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Mithréum de Biesheim-Kunheim

The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.

 
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Mercury of Stockstadt

The Stockstadt Mercury carries a purse and a small child around which a snake is coiled.

 
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Aion from Villa Barberini

This lion-headed marble was found on the ruins of the Alban Villa of Domitianus.

 
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Mithréum de Valromey

This temple of Mithras has been discovered under the Church in Vieux-en-Val-Romey, in 1869.

 
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Mithras hunting from Dura Europos

In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

 
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Mithraic brooch of Ostia

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

 
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Fragments of a Mithriac relief with Jupiter and Sol

These three fragments of carved marble depict Jupiter, Sol, Luna and a naked man wearing a Phrygian cap, with inscriptions calling Mithras Sanctus Dominum.

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