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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

Serapis head from Mérida

This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony of the Gran Mitreo de Mérida

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

 
Monumentum

Lion-headed figure of Mérida

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

 
Monumentum

Altar of Mérida from Quintio

This altar, which has now disappeared, was dedicated by the slave Quintio for the health of a certain Coutius Lupus.

 
Monumentum

Isis de Mérida

The Isis of Merida is covered by a long dress that reaches down to her feet.

 
Monumentum

Cautopates from Casa del Mitreo of Mérida

The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.

 
Monumentum

Oceaunus of Mérida

The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

 
Monumentum

Venus of Mérida small sculpture

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

 
Monumentum

Aion of Mérida

The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.

 
Monumentum

Aesculapius of Merida

This standing sculptural figure from Mérida appears to carry the serpent staff, characteristic of the medicine god Aesculapius.

 
Monumentum

Venus pudica of Mérida

The Venus pudica of Merida stands next to the young Amor riding a dolplhin.

 
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Cautes of Mérida

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

 
Monumentum

Naked figure from Mérida

This sculpture may be a naked dadophorus, probably Cautopates.

 
Monumentum

Mitreo de Tróia

García y Bellido proposed the existence of a mithraeum in a narrow, elongated room where the Troia mithraic relief was found.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 787

Marble statuette (H. 0.52), found in 1902.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 788

Marble statue (H. 1.34).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 789

Marble statue (H. 1.58).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 790

Marble statue (H. 1.48).

 
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CIMRM 791

We still have to mention a naked foot beside the remnants of a tree-trunk (Inv. No. 576) and remnants of a marble seat or table, on which an acanthus-leaf, with the head and neck of a lion emerging out of it (Melida, Cat. Badajoz, Nos. 1086 and 1095).

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 792

Inscr.

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