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Monumentum

Tauroctony from Quirinale

This sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull was found in the Quirinal and is now on display in the Musei Capitolini.

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Mitreo degli Animali

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

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Tauroctony by Raffaello Sanzio

This Raffaello Sanzio relief depicts a late Tauroctony.

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Tauroctony from Zadar

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Zadar includes a naked Sol in a quadriga.

Notitia

Los dioses de Egipto y Persia que los romanos honraron en Lucus Augusti

La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo

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The gay origins of the Hindi world for friend

The Sanskrit and Hindi word for friend is “Mitra”. It is also the Nepali word for it. The Sinhala word is ‘mitura’. The word’s etymology has surprising, stark and vivid homosexual connotations.

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Ritualized Body and Ritualized Identity

Recontextualizing the Initiation rituals of the Roman Mystery Cult of Mithras.

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Newly-found petroglyph in western Iran may have link to Mithraism

Some Iranian archaeologists suggest that the carving was created by a follower of Mithraism as it depicts a simple portrayal of a human with his right hand raised and an object in his hand. But, experts say it needs much more study in order to date the pe

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Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London

Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience.

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Carabinieri recover a Mithras Tauroctony about to be sold on the black market

The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Bologna

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.

Video

La creación del mito de Mitra | Jaime Alvar Ezquerra

Jaime Alvar Ezquerra habla de 'La creación del mito de Mitra' en el tercer seminario online de Aglaya.

Locus

Saifnitz (Tarvisio)

Saifnitz occupied a position near important Alpine crossing routes between Italy and Noricum.

Monumentum

Altar of Quintus Lucilius Piscinus from Tropaeum Traiani

Limestone altar from Tropaeum Traiani, Moesia Inferior, dedicated in honour of the Domus Divina to Soli invicto sacrum by Quintus Lucilius Piscinus, centurion of Legio I Italica.

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Altar of Ianuarius and Lupercus from Höglwörth

Altar from Höglwörth, ancient Bedaium in Noricum, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae for the welfare of Marcus Lollius Priscus by his freedmen Ianuarius and Lupercus.

Monumentum

Double-sided relief from Beihingen

Sandstone plate from Beihingen in the Neckar valley, depicting on one side a youth in Oriental dress with a bow in an arched niche, and on the other a corresponding figure; both may represent torchbearers or Mithraic grades.

Monumentum

Mithras head and tauroctony fragment from the Terni area

Two Mithraic monuments received by the Museo Nazionale delle Terme in Rome in 1896, reportedly from Narni: a small head of Mithras tauroctone in Phrygian cap with traces of red and gilding, and a central relief fragment of Mithras slaying the bull.

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Lost Sol statue from Nersae

A Sol statue headless and lacking arms and feet, mentioned by Martelli as existing at Nersae alongside a fragmentary inscription, with no further details obtainable by Vermaseren or Cumont.

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Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco fragment from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua, of which only the heads and parts of the white tunica of two figures remain visible.

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