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A low-relief of Mithras tauroctone was found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robi- lant in a cellar, full of the debris of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus.
Two marble busts (H. 0.96), found at Formiae and obtained in 1902 by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek at Copenhague (Inv. Nos 1905/6) from the Villa Borghese collection.
The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.
Libertus from the Arrii-family to which also belonged the Emperor Antonius Pius.
The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.
A marble head in the Uffizi Gallery, long interpreted as a “dying Alexander,” but probably representing Mithras tauroctonos.
The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.
Roman relief from a sanctuary on the Janiculum Hill (Rome), showing a male figure bound by a serpent coiled seven times.
A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.
The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.
In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.
