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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Julian

The last pagan emperor of Rome, closely associated with Mithras and Neoplatonic interpretations of the Sun God.

Syndexios

Nero

Roman emperor whose ceremonial reception of Tiridates I of Armenia established one of the earliest recorded links between Mithras and the Roman imperial court.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Viale Latino

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

Monumentum

Altar to Arimanius of the Esquilino

This altar mentioning the god Arimanius was found in 1655 at Porta San Giovanni, on the Esquilino.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Naples

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

Monumentum

Inscription fragment from Gran

Two fragments of a sandstone inscription from Gran in the Vosges, dated to the late second century, recording a dedication to Soli deo invicto by a servant of the dedicant, with possible mention of a portico and columns.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Dragus

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

Monumentum

Altar of C. Tullius Trophimianus from Rome

Altar found in the church of S. Giovanni de Mercato in Rome, with a dedication to the holy Invictus Mithras by C. Tullius Trophimianus.

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Altar of M. Aurelius Bassus from Rome

Altar formerly in the house of the de Vellis family near the Carmelites in Rome and now in the Museo delle Terme, with a dedication to Silvanus on one side and on the reverse a record by M. Aurelius Bassus, priest of Sol, of having made a fountain flow.

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Marble altar CIL VI 744 dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Vestalis and C. Vettius Augustalis, Rome

Marble altar from the gardens of the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia, dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as a votive offering by Vestalis, servant of the Caesars, and C. Vettius Augustalis.

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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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Tiburtine stone tablet CIL VI 659 dedicated to Sol Invictus by T. Aelius Tryfon, Rome

Tiburtine stone tablet found in 1740 near S. Balbina, with a dedication by T. Aelius Tryfon, priest of Sol Invictus, to the Invicti and Silvanus, erected after a vision.

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Coins from the S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Coins found in the lower sandy strata of the S. Prisca Mithraeum, ranging from the time of Claudius to the late 4th century, including issues of Commodus, Crispina, Diocletianus, Galerius, Constans and Valens.

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Two Mithraic monuments from the Dolichenum excavations on the Aventine, Rome

Two Mithraic monuments discovered during the 1935 excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine, together with statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules, now in the Museo Capitolino; the only certain Mithraic finds from a Dolichenum.

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Coin deposit from Schachadorf

Deposit of twenty-three coins from the Mithraeum at Schachadorf, Noricum, spanning from Claudius II to Valentinianus II and providing a terminus for the sanctuary's use.

Monumentum

Altar to Cautes by Septimius Valentinus

Limestone altar dedicated to Cautes by the Roman optio Septimius Valentinus, discovered in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi in Pannonia Inferior.

Monumentum

Altar for Fons Dei

Fragmentary limestone altar dedicated by Septimius Valentinus, an optio, probably discovered in Mithraeum IV at Aquincum.

Provincia

Arabia

Arabia connected the Roman Near East to caravan routes, desert frontiers and the commercial networks of the southern Levant.

Locus

Lugdunum (Lyon)

Lugdunum, currently Lyon, France, was the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. The city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus. Two emperors, Claudius and Caracalla, were born in Lugdunum.

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Memphis (Memphis)

Mampsis or Memphis, today Mamshit, Arabic Kurnub, is a former Nabataean caravan stop and Byzantine city.

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