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Syndexios

Lucius Sextius Karus
His name was added to the main tauroctony sculpture of the Mitreo Fagan.
Syndexios

Tamesius Augentius Olympius
Syndexios

Kastos (father)
Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
Monumentum

Inscription of Olympus to his grandfather
This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.
TNMM447 – CIMRM 406
TAMESII / AUGENTII / OLYMPII / Olim Victor avus, caelo devotus et astris Regali sumptu Phoebeia templa locavit. Hunc superat pietate nepos, cui nomen avitum est: Antra facit, sumptusque tuos nec …
Monumentum

Altar dedicated by Pater Patrum Augentius
This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.
TNMM445 – CIMRM 403
Dd(ominis) nn(ostris) Valente V et Valentiniano / iuniore primum Augg(ustis) VI idus april(es) / tradidit hierocoracica Aur(elius) Victor / Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) filio suo Emi…
Monumentum

Stele of the Arch of San Lazzaro
This stele found at the foot of the Aventine bears an inscription of Kastos father and son, and mentions several syndexioi who shared the same temple.
TNMM443 – CIMRM 473
Mithraeum

Mitreo all'Arco di San Lazzaro
Three mithraic monuments were found in 1931, suggesting that a mithraeum probably existed in the area.
TNMM442 – CIMRM 472
Mithraeum

Mitreo Fagan
The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.
TNMM98 – CIMRM 309
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Felicissimo
The Mithraeum Felicissimus has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
TNMM7 – CIMRM 299
Felicissimvs / ex voto f[ecit]
Monumentum

Petrogeny of San Clemente
Mithras birth from the knees upwards emerging from a rock and wearing as usual a Phrygian cap.
TNMM435 – CIMRM 344
Mithraeum

Mitreo presso Porta Romana
The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.
TNMM41
Mithraeum

Mitreo delle Sette Porte
The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.
TNMM4 – CIMRM 287
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia
Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.
TNMM214
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection
Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.
TNMM376
Monumentum

Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio (CIMRM 430)
This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.
TNMM256 – CIMRM 430
Mithraeum

Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia
The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.
TNMM229
Monumentum

Tauroctony in the British Museum
The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.
TNMM328 – CIMRM 592
Monumentum

Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano
The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.
TNMM151 – CIMRM 641
Monumentum

Second Petrogeny of Santo Stefano Rotondo
The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.
TNMM364
Mithraeum

Mitreo del Campidoglio «lo perso»
This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.
TNMM24 – CIMRM 414