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Notitia

Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market
The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.
Syndexios

Tiberius Claudius Thermodon
Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.
Syndexios

Vettius Agorius Praetextatus
Pater patrum and Pater sacrorum among other titles.
Monumentum

Raven from Stockstadt
The Stockstadt Raven is one of only two standing-alone sculptures of this bird to be found in Mithraic statuary.
TNMM410 – CIMRM 1192
Monumentum

Sabazios with Mithras from Bolsena
This unusual bronze bust of Sabazios features multiple symbolic elements, with Mithras depicted in his characteristic pose of slaying the bull, positioned just below Sabazios’ chest.
TNMM802 – CIMRM 659
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Capodimonte
The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.
TNMM803
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Sutri
The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.
TNMM21 – CIMRM 653
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Cosa
The Mithraeum was inserted into the basement of the basilica-theater by the 3rd century.
TNMM75
Monumentum

Heliodromus inscription of Cerveteri
This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.
TNMM512
[Deo Soli Invic]/[to Mi]thrae / [Mem]mius Pla/cidus helio/dromus sacr/atus a Curtio / Iuvenale patre / votum [solvit] / [libens merito].
Monumentum

Petrogeny of Florence
The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.
TNMM744 – CIMRM 666
Syndexios

Curius Iuvenalis
Pater Curius Iuvenalis is attested in the first known monument dedicated by a Heliodromus.
Syndexios

Memmius Placidus
He was a Heliodromus who recorded his grade on an inscription dedicated to Mithras.
Monumentum

Altar of Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus
The marble altar mentions Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus as Pater Sacrorum and Patrum and his wife Aconia Fabia Paulina.
TNMM273 – CIMRM 420
D(is) M(anibus). Vettius Agorius Praetextatus augur, p[o]ntifex Vestae, pontifex Sol[is], quindecemvir curialis Herc[u]lis, sacratus Libero et Eleusiniis, hierophanta, neocorus, tauroboliatus, …
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Vulci
The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.
TNMM20
Mithraeum

Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia
The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.
TNMM229
Monumentum

CIMRM 644
Franz Cumont drew our attention to a statue, found along the Via Cassia (Clodia) about six kilometers from Rome.
TNMM1149 – CIMRM 644
Monumentum

CIMRM 645
Marble statue (H. 0.65), found at Torrita near Nazzano in the beginning of the 19th century.
TNMM1150 – CIMRM 645
Monumentum

CIMRM 646
CIL XI 3865; MMM II No.
TNMM1151 – CIMRM 646
Monumentum

CIMRM 654
Marble relief (H. 0.63 Br. 1.07 D. 0.025-0.03), broken in two pieces.
TNMM1153 – CIMRM 654
Monumentum

CIMRM 655
Relief of peperino, fixed in a great height into a wall of the old farm "Le Capa- nacce", situated on the main road Le Capranicie-Vetralla, about 6 km from Vicus Matrini along the Via Cassia.
TNMM1154 – CIMRM 655