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    Monumentum

    Inscription on restauration of the Mitreo de Carsulae

    Marble plaque with inscription of a sacerdos probatus to Sol and the god Invictus Mithras.

    TNMM484

    Soli et invicto [deo Mithrae]. / Ex permissu san[ctissimi] / ordinis dec[ur(ionum)] / Sex(tus) Egnatius Primitivus / sacerdos probatus sevir / Aug(ustalis) Casuenti et Carsulis, / q(uaestor) arcae Aug…
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    Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Carsulae

    Epigraphic monuments reveal the presence of a Mithraeum in the ancient municiple of Carsulae, in Umbria.

    TNMM485

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    Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Santa Prisca

    The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

    TNMM12 – CIMRM 476

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    Monumentum

    Tauroctony 593

    This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

    TNMM164 – CIMRM 593, 594

    Alcimus T. Cl(audi) Liviani ser(vus) vilic(us) S(oli) M(ithrae) v(otum) s(olvit) d(onum) d(edit)
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    Monumentum

    Inscription of Kastos father and son

    Second Mithraic monument dedicated by the Kastos family, found not far from the Arco di S. Lazzaro, in Rome.

    TNMM449 – CIMRM 474

    Διί 'Ηλίω Μίθρα / άνεικήτω Κάστος / πατήρ καί Κάστος / ύιός / ύιός ίερός κόραξ.
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    Monumentum

    Altar with inscription of Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

    This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.

    TNMM461 – CIMRM 259

    C. Caelius Hermaeros / antistes huius loci / fecit / sua pec(unia).
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    Monumentum

    Mithras pantocrator of the Villa Altieri

    This unusual representation of Mithras standing on a bull was kept in the Casino di Villa Altieri sul Monte Esquilino until the 19th century.

    TNMM475 – CIMRM 334

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    Velox

    Slave who, for the salvation of his master, built a spelaeum in Aquileia, complete with its furnishings.
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    Monumentum

    Inscription on the base of a statue from Stabiae

    This inscription on white marble by Lucius Gavidius uses the term ther cultores to refer to his Mithraic community in Stabiae, Italy.

    TNMM600

    Aug(usto) s[a]crum. / L. Gavidius A[…]t[…] / cultoribus dei M[i]thr[ae] / donum d(edit) d(edicavit) li[b(ens) me]r(ito).
  • Syndexios

    Lucius Gavidius

    He dedicated to the Emperor, for the worshipers of the god Mithras a sculpture in Stabiae.
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    Locus

    Stabiae

    Stabiae was an ancient city situated near the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia and approximately 4.5 km southwest of Pompeii.
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    Monumentum

    Mithraic brooch of Ostia

    In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

    TNMM369 – CIMRM 318

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    Monumentum

    Fragments of a Mithriac relief with Jupiter and Sol

    These three fragments of carved marble depict Jupiter, Sol, Luna and a naked man wearing a Phrygian cap, with inscriptions calling Mithras Sanctus Dominum.

    TNMM594 – CIMRM 332, 333

    [Domi]no sanct[o / o]ptimo maxim[o / sa]lutari iussu eius / libens dedit / [M(arcus)] Modius Ag/[atho] cum / [suis pro Faus]to / pat[rono]. Dedit M. Modius [Agatho] / sancto domino / invicto Mithra…
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    Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Piazza della Navicella

    Several fragmentary Mithraic remains dedicated by a certain Agatho in the Caelius suggest that a Mithraeum existed in the area.

    TNMM595 – CIMRM 327

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    Monumentum

    Relief of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva

    This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

    TNMM597 – CIMRM 328, 329

    Opt[i]mus maximus / Caelus aeternus Iup[i]/ter Iunoni Reginae / Minervae iussus liben[s] / dedit pro salutem suam / M(arcus) Modius Agatho et pr[o] / Fausti patroni hominis s(ancti?) / et Helpidis sua…
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    Monumentum

    Altar with Minerva and a water god

    According to the inscription on it, this altar probably supported a statue of Jupiter.

    TNMM596 – CIMRM 330, 331

    Iovi optimo maximo / caelestino fontibus et / Minervae et collegio / sanctissimo quod consis/tit in praedis Larci / Macedonis. / In curia. / Flavius Successus cum suis.
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    Agatho

    Agatho has dedicated several monuments to Mithras in the Coelian Hill.
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    Monumentum

    Slab of Sol Invictus

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

    TNMM249 – CIMRM 373

    Soli invicto / pro salute imp(eratorum) / et genio n(umeri) / eq(uitum) sing(ula- rium) / eorum M. Ulp(ius) / Chresimus sace[rd(os)] / Iovis Dolich[eni] / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) [m(erito)]
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    Monumentum

    Aion from Muti's gardens

    The lion-headed marble from Muti's gardens has a serpent entwined in four coils around his body.

    TNMM296 – CIMRM 551

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    Mithraeum

    Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo

    In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.

    TNMM438 – CIMRM 421

 
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