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Tauroctony from Capri

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

 
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Tauroctony from Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.

 
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Cautes of Sisak

This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.

 
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Altar with Sol from Ptuj

This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.

 
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Cautes of Transylvania

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

 
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Altars of Jajce

Three small limestone altars were found in the Jajce Mithraeum, one of which bears the inscription ’Invicto’.

 
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Larger altars and small finds from Jajce

Three larger altars and other finds from the Mithraeum of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 
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Mithras-inscription of Speyer

This monument with an inscription to the god Sol Mithras was found in front of the cathedral of Speyer during some sewer works.

 
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Petrogeny from Bingen

This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.

 
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Aion from Luxor

This statuette was bought by A. Wiedemann in Luxor in 1882 from a man from Kus.

 
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Aion of Porsione

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

 
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Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

 
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Inscription of Sahin

This mithraic inscription in greek was found in a place called Sahin in Phoenicia.

 
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Hermae of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana

A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.

 
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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 relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

 
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Tauroctony from Villa Borghese

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

 
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Tauroctony from Aurelios Stephanos from Sibiu

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.

 
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Triptic of Tróia

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

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