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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

Album of Sentinum

This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.

Syndexios

Hermadio

Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.

Syndexios

Marcus Lollianus Callinicus

A Mithraic pater at Ostia associated with the dedication of an image of Arimanius in the Casa di Diana mithraeum.

Monumentum

Bronze medallion of Gordian III with tauroctony

The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

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Bronze torchbearers from the Cabinet des Médailles

Pair of bronze torchbearer statuettes in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, originally belonging to the same sculptural group.

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Tauroctony jasper gem formerly in the Museo Borgiano

Yellow jasper fragment of unknown provenance, formerly in the Museo Borgiano, with a tauroctony on the obverse and a Mithraic figure on the reverse.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of uncertain Dacian origin

Marble tauroctony relief of uncertain but probably Apulum/Dacian provenance, depicting Mithras tauroktonos with raven, serpent, scorpion, and dog.

Monumentum

Mithréum de Mackwiller

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

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Mitreo di Santa Prisca

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

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Tauroctony from the Collezione Torlonia

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

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Tauroctony found on the Esquiline

This white marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on the Esquilino near the Church of Saint Lucy in Selci in Rome.

Monumentum

Mithras pantocrator from 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.

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Tauroctony from the Cortile del Belvedere

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

Monumentum

Third tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați

Reddish-white marble tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați, Dacia, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.

Monumentum

Second tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați

White marble tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați, Dacia, with the raven perched on the grotto's border; the right upper corner is broken off.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Slăveni-Romanați

Two white marble tauroctony relief fragments from Slăveni-Romanați, Dacia, depicting the standard bull-slaying scene.

Monumentum

Altar of Tiberius Cassius Sanctus from Baden

Lost stone altar from the thermal baths at Baden, ancient Aquae Helveticae, dedicated to Deo invicto by Tiberius Cassius Sanctus and Tiberius Sancteius Valens following a vision.

Monumentum

Bronze Aion figure with lion head from Rome

Small bronze figure from Rome, probably used as a handle for a patera or knife, depicting the lion-headed Aion with four large wings, entwined in three coils of a serpent, holding a torch in his right hand and a key in his left.

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Aion statue on a crescent-decorated cone from Rome

White marble statue of the lion-headed Aion standing on a cone decorated with a crescent, entwined in seven coils of a serpent and pressing claw-like hands against his body, each grasping a key; formerly in the Museo Torlonia, Rome.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with ant at the testicles from Rome

Tauroctony relief in the Museo Torlonia, Rome, remarkable for having a large ant grasping the testicles in place of the scorpion, with the raven on Mithras' flying cloak, the dog and serpent near the wound, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners; no torchbearers represented…

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