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The New Mithraeum Database

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Locus

Florentia (Florence)

Florentia was a Roman city in the Arno valley from which Florence originated.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with torchbearers from Settignano, near Florence

A rectangular marble tauroctony relief found in Etruria, once in the Villa Martin at Settignano near Florence, showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes and Cautopates in Eastern attire cross-legged on either side and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners;…

Monumentum

Tauroctony statue fragment from Florence, Palazzo Corsini

A white marble tauroctony statue fragment in the Palazzo Corsini in Florence, possibly from the Florentine area, heavily restored, with the upper body of Mithras and the bull's hind quarter with scorpion preserved but hind-legs lost and the god's head replaced by a petasus…

Monumentum

Aion of Florence

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

Monumentum

Petrogeny from Florence

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

Locus

Torrita (Torrita di Siena)

Torrita di Siena is a comune in the Province of Siena in the Italian region of Tuscany, located about 80 kilometres southeast of Florence and about 40 km southeast of Siena.

Monumentum

Tauroctony on yellow carnelian from Udine

Yellow lenticular carnelian gem probably from Aquileia, now in Udine, depicting a Mithraic scene nearly identical to the Florence jasper.

Socius

Simone Baldacci

Design student, blacksmith and student of western magic traditions.

Monumentum

Altar to Sol Invictus Mithras from Rome

Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.

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