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Your search From Rome, Mithreum of Castra Peregrinorum under Santo Stefano Rotondo. gave 548 results.

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Slab of Sol Invictus

The slab of the Sun god has not yet connected to Mithras.

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Tauroctony from the Villa Borghese

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

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The Golden Ass: Book XI

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

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Altar by Hermanio of Poetovio

A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

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Andy Fear

Lecturer in Ancient History

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Inscription of Victorinus from Tibur

This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

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Tauroctonia del Cortile del Belvedere

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

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Inscription of the Olympius for a Leo

The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.

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Cautopates in the Walters Art Museum

This fragmentary relief shows Cautopates bordered by three of the six zodiacal signs with which He is associated: Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio.

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Tauroctony on display in Princeton

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.

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Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

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Mithraeum of Caernarfon

The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

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Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale

The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.

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Fragments of plaque from Circo Massimo

The inscription mentions the Pater Cossio Atiano.

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Altar dedicated by Pater Patrum Augentius

This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.

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Mithraeum of Prilep

The Mithras temple of Prilep is in a small grotto under the castle of Markovi-Kuli.

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Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

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Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

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Mithraeum of Aigio

The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.

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Tauroctony from Leonardo Agostini book

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.

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