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Mitreo di Fructosus

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

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Sabazeo

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

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Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

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Mitreo Sacellum delle Tre Navate

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

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Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

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Altar of Stertinius Carpus from the Ponte Emilio Area, Rome

This altar bears an inscription to the health of the emperor Commodus by a certain Marcus Aurelius, his father and two other fellows.

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Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares

Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

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Dedication to Mithras from Pax Iulia

Marble inscription recording the construction of a Mithraic meeting place and the donation of a crater by Titus Flavius Artemidorus.

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Marble base from Rome by Ulpius Paulus

Small marble base, found in one of the private houses along the Via Sacra nearly opposite to the Basilica of Constantine, Rome.

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Altar of Firmidius Severinus from Geneva

This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

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Inscription of two Gessii from Sentinum

Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.

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Altar of Aemilius Chrysanthus to the Invincible Sol

Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.

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Mithraic texts from Santa Prisca

Preliminary readings of the painted Mithraic texts later revised after additional research and restoration.

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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 relief from Plevna

Marble tauroctony relief from Plevna (Pleven), Moesia Inferior, found between the remnants of a demolished church, depicting the standard bull-slaying in a grotto with dog, serpent, and scorpion.

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Dedication slab to Deo sancto Mithrae from Lopata

Stone slab still in front of the church in Kumanovo, ancient Lopata in Moesia Superior, bearing a dedication to Deo sancto Mithrae.

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Tauroctony fragments from Bihać

Two limestone relief fragments from Bihać, Dalmatia, found near Kástel Stasi and the Croate Church of Saint Martha, preserving portions of a Mithraic bull-slaying scene.

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Mithraeum at Gross-Krotzenburg

Mithraic sanctuary discovered behind the west part of a Roman cemetery near the camp at Gross-Krotzenburg in 1881, finds destroyed in World War II

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Cippus of Myron the slave, dedicated for Prunicianus, from Arezzo

A small marble cippus found in an old wall near the church of San Niccolò in Arezzo (ancient Arretium), bearing a dedication by Myron, a slave, to the Invincible Holy and Safe god for the welfare of his master Prunicianus.

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Tauroctony from the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

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