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Monumentum

Altar of Pisignano
This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.
TNMM675 – CIMRM 692
Locus

Pisignano
Monumentum

Tauroctony on display in Boston
This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.
TNMM539 – CIMRM 607
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Tauroctony in Copenhagen
This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.
TNMM674 – CIMRM 596
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Tauroctony relief of Villa Borghese
This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.
TNMM672 – CIMRM 586
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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.
TNMM671 – CIMRM 585
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Tauroctony of 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.
TNMM669 – CIMRM 588
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Tauroctony of via di Borgo
This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.
TNMM649 – CIMRM 366, 367
Deo sancto I(nvicto) M(ithrae) sacrathis (sic) d(onum) p(osuerunt) Placidus Marcellinus leo antis{ti}tes et Guntha leo.
Syndexios

Marcellinus
Marcellinus was an antistes who reached the grade of Leo in Rome.
Monumentum

Altar of Poreč
This stone altar found in Poreč was dedicated by two freedmen to the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
TNMM660 – CIMRM 754
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro salute et / victoria s(acratissimorum) d(ominorum) n(ostrorum) / Philipporum Aug(ustorum) / et Otaciliae Severe Aug(ustae) / Charitinus I(ibertus) s(ub)proc(urat…
Syndexios

Sabinianus
A comrade of Charitinus, he was a freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
Locus

Parentium
The roman castrum was built in the 2nd century BC. During the reign of Emperor Augustus in the 1st century BC, it officially became a city and was part of the Roman colony of Colonia Iulia Parentium.
Syndexios

Charitinus
Freedman who consecrated an altar to Mithras for the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
Monumentum

Inscription of Valentinus Secundionis
This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.
TNMM658 – CIMRM 730
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et Soli soci/o sac(rum) Valen/tinus Se/cund[i]on[i]s / ob memor(iam) / patris sui / ex colleg(a) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Locus

Sublavio
Waidbruck is a comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 20 kilometres northeast of Bolzano.
Syndexios

Valentinus Secundionis
Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Ostia found in 1939
This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.
TNMM657 – CIMRM 296, 297
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Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo
These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.
TNMM654 – CIMRM 165, 166
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Tauroctony of Palermo
The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.
TNMM150 – CIMRM 164
Locus

Panormus
Palermo is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.