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The New Mithraeum Database

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Tauroctony relief with raven on cloak from Stix-Neusiedl

White marble tauroctony relief from Stix-Neusiedl, Pannonia Superior, depicting Mithras killing the bull with the raven perched on the rim of the god's flying cloak — an unusual detail placing the raven on the cloak rather than on the grotto border…

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Cautes statuette from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Marble statuette from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Cautes raising the torch with both hands; head, right hand, and lower legs are lost.

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Marble hand with torch from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Marble left hand holding a torch from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, belonging to a statue of Cautes.

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Marble hand with dagger from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Marble right hand holding a dagger from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio — a fragment of a tauroctony statue or relief.

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Tauroctony forepart with Cautes from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Foremost portion of a marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the bull's forepart, the serpent's head, the turning dog, and Cautes raising the torch with both hands.

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Tauroctony with stretched bull from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, distinguished by the bull represented with fully stretched legs; Cautopates is shown resting his head on his hand in a pensive posture.

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Cautes with raised torch from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Right portion of a marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Cautes holding the upraised torch with both hands; not cross-legged; head, feet, right hand, and torch top are lost.

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Rock-birth statue from Schachadorf

Conglomerate statue from a layer of fire debris in the Mithraeum at Schachadorf, Noricum, depicting a naked Mithras without Phrygian cap being born from the rock with upraised hands; a coiling serpent is visible below.

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Cautopates statue from Neuenheim

Statue of Cautopates from Neuenheim, holding a downward torch with both hands, now in the Kurpfälzisches Museum at Heidelberg

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Iron ritual pan from Heddernheim

Large circular iron pan with handle from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, likely used in Mithraic ritual feasting

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Leontocephaline figure from Frankfurt

This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

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Mithraeum of Eleusis

A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.

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Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

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First Tauroctony relief of Dura Europos

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.

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Lucius Petreius Victor

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

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Slab from the Palace of Darius at Persepolis

This plaque, located on the western staircase of the Palace of Darius, mentions the god Mithra together with Ahura Mazda as protectors of King Artaxerxes III Ochus.

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Mercury of Groß-Gerau

The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.

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Aion of Skikda

The lion-headed figure from Rusicade, now Skikda, holds a key in both hands and features a pine cone beside his feet.

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Mosaic of Cautes and Cautopates in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

At the entrance to the Mithraeum of the Seven Sferes, Cautopates holds the torch with both hands and Cautes holds the torch in his right hand and a cock in his left.

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Hekataion of Sidon

The Hekataion of Sidon, which depicts Hekate in her trimorphic form surrounded by three dancing girls, is the only example found to date in connection with the Mithraic cult.

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