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Monumentum

Altar from Aquincum by Castinus
This altar to Mithras is dedicated by a certain Gaius Iulius Castinus, legate prefect of the emperors.
TNMM502 – CIMRM 1774
Deo Invicto / Mitrae C(aius) / Iul(ius) Casti/nus leg(atus) Augg(ustorum) / pr(o) pr(aetore).
Monumentum

Mithraic meal from Proložac, Croatia
Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.
TNMM304
Invicto Mithre Stati(i) ursus / et Ursinus pat(er) et fil(ius) v(otum) l(ibentes) p(osuerunt).
Monumentum

Second petrogey of Aquincum
Another sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from the Mithraeum of Victorinus, in Aquincum.
TNMM478 – CIMRM 1756
Monumentum

Bronze plaque of Sisak
This small bronze tabula ansata was dedicated to Mithras by two brothers, probably not related by blood.
TNMM397 – CIMRM 1477
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Aurelius Heraclides / et Agathopus fra/tres v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).
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.
TNMM429 – CIMRM 785
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Stixneusiedl
The Tauroctony of Stixneusiedl was found in ancient Pannonia Superior, currently Austria.
TNMM278 – CIMRM 1658
D(eo) In(victo) M(ithrae) S(oli) pro s(alute) Aug(ustorum) nn(ostrorum) L(ucii) Sep(timii) / Valerius et Valerianus sex(viri) col(oniae) K(arnunti) / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito)
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Dunaújváros (Intercisa)
The Dunaújváros Mithraeum was discovered in 1973.
TNMM345
Monumentum

Cantharus to Deo Invicto of Trier
The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.
TNMM404
Monumentum

Petrogenia of Aquincum
In Aquincum petrogenia, Mithras holds the usual dagger and torch as he emerges from the rock.
TNMM178 – CIMRM 1758
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Scarbantia
Emperor Julian is supposed to have presided over a human sacrifice in the Mithraeum of Scarbantia, according to N. Massalsky.
TNMM294
Monumentum

Tauroctony of York
This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.
TNMM246 – CIMRM 835
Monumentum

Lion of Carnuntum III
Exceptional sculpture of a lion devouring a bull's head founded in 1894 in Carnuntum, Pannonia.
TNMM495 – CIMRM 1690