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Monumentum

Inscription of Aphrodisius

This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.

Monumentum

Fresco of Mithras

Fresco of Mithras found in an arched niche above the right bench of the Baths of Caracalla’s Mithraeum in Rome.

Monumentum

Marble inscription for a cult image of Mithras from Rome

Marble inscription recording the dedication of a cult image to the unconquered Mithras by a certain pater Valerius Marinus from Rome.

Monumentum

Inscription by Velox of Aquileia

Marble slab with inscription by Velox for the salvation of the chief of the iron mines of Noricum.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Split

This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Crikvine

This relief of Mithras killing the sacred bull was found in 1908 near Klisa, in the surroundings of Salona, the ancient capital of Roman Dalmatia.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Macerata

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.

Monumentum

Round Tauroctony of Split

The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.

Monumentum

Seal of King Šauštatar of Mitanni

Royal Mitannian seal featuring a winged solar emblem and heroic combat scenes from the cultural milieu in which the earliest attestation of Mitra is found.

Locus

Ḫattuša (Boğazkale)

Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods.

Syndexios

Marcus Valerius Maximianus

Senator, imperial legate and commander from Poetovio, whose dedications to Mithras link the Danubian and African diffusion of the cult.

Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Nicomedes

Ostian sacerdos remembered through his participation in the dedication of the monumental leontocephalic image erected under Commodus in 190 CE.

Syndexios

Lucius Valerius Monteius

A Mithraic worshipper whose dedication to Cautes preserves a distinctive epigraphic tradition associated with the coastal communities of north-eastern Hispania.

Monumentum

Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

The phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been represented as a cock.

Syndexios

Lucius Agrius Calendius

Benefactor of the Imperial Palace Mithraeum and possible member of Ostia’s African community.

Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Vitalis

Mithraic priest and dedicator of the leontocephalic deity from the Fagan Mithraeum at Ostia.

Monumentum

Altar by Paterna from Rheder

A votive altar dedicated to Deus Invictus Mithras by Paterna, among the few women explicitly associated with Mithraic worship.

Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Avitus

Landowner from Augustobriga, transferred to Tarraco by Antoninus Pius and owner of the villa of Els Munts and its Mithraeum.

Monumentum

Uninscribed altars from Kreta

Eight uninscribed sandstone altars from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior.

Monumentum

Altar with uncertain dedication from Kreta

Sandstone altar with patera from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior, bearing a Greek inscription of uncertain reading, possibly a thanksgiving to Mithras.

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