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The New Mithraeum Database

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Altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The altar includes a slab with an inscription for the salvation of two emperors.

 
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Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

 
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Altar of Senj made by the slave Hermes

The dedicator of this altar was a slave in the service of a high official, the prefect Gaius Antonius Rufus, known from other inscriptions.

 
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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.

 
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Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo

The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

 
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Serapis head of Walbrook

The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.

 
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Re-used Neolithic axe-head inscribed with a Tauroctony

According to Christopher A. Faraone, the axe-head from Argos belong to a category of thunderstones reused as amulets.

 
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Tauroctony relief of the Esquiline

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

 
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Presentation of Mystai by Peter Mark Adams

Presentation on the Dionysian-themed frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries by Peter Mark Adams on the occasion of the presentation of his book.

 
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Feast scene with Mithras and Sol from Ladenburg

Bas-relief depicting a naked Sol leaning over his fellow Mithras while raising a drinking horn during the sacred feast.

 
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CIMRM 1075

Sandstone statue of Cautopates holding two downward-pointing torches, from the Ober-Florstadt Mithraeum.

 
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Column of Callimorphus

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun ’Mythra’.

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Hadi Valipour

Name: Dr. Hadi Valipour Date of Birth: August 26, 1983 Place of Birth: Iran Current Position: Assistant Professor of Eastern Religions, specializing in An

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Mithradat Persian

My name mithradat - One of Iran’s old nobles - architect - project manager - financial strategist

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Adam Arkfeld

I have been investigating an archaelogical site in the Northern Shenandoah valley of Virginia. TL and C14 dates from iron smelting materials are circa 150 AD.

 
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Tauroctony from Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.

 
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Tauroctony relief of Alba Iulia

The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.

 
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Lion relief from Nemrut Dag

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

 
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CIMRM 1187

A fragmentary red sandstone relief preserves the upper part of three-headed Hekate holding a long object in her left hand.

 
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The Mithraeum of Rusicade

The Rusicade Mithraeum is notable for the absence of a tauroctony relief, instead yielding multiple altars and unusual installations including conduit pipes and a pine-cone shaped stone.

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