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The New Mithraeum Database

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Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt

Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.

 
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Candelabrum of Doryphorus

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

 
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Mithras head of Arles

This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.

 
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Tauroctony sculpture in the Sala dei Animali

This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.

 
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Tauroctony from Chrestos

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

 
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Tauroctony from via di Borgo

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

 
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Tauroctony from Aelius Maximus of Turda

This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.

 
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Cautes and Cautopates of Ostia found in 1939

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

 
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Plaque of Meknès

One of the two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, found in Meknès, Morocco.

 
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Altar of Meknès

Two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, have been found in Meknès, Morocco.

 
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Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo

These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.

 
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Tauroctony from Palermo

The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.

 
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Album of Portus

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

 
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Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj

This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.

 
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Tauroctony from Aelius Hylas from Doştat

This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.

 
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Inscription to Mithras and Silvanus from Ljubljana

A certain Blastia or Blastianus made a dedication to Mithras and Silvanus on an altar in Emona, Pannonia.

 
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Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen

This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.

 
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Mosaic of Silvanus from Ostia

This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.

 
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Silvanus of Skikda

The statue of Skikda has seven holes in his hair for fastening rays.

 
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Colonne with inscription by workers of the pig market

The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.

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