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Syndexios

Melichrisus

Early Mithraic Leo from Novae whose name has been associated with the honey symbolism of the leonine grade.

Monumentum

Bronze torchbearers from the Cabinet des Médailles

Pair of bronze torchbearer statuettes in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, originally belonging to the same sculptural group.

Monumentum

Rock-crystal tauroctony gem from Paris

Rock-crystal gem in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with the standard iconographic programme.

Locus

Pergamum (Bergama)

Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.

Locus

Amasia (Amasya)

Amasya is a city in northern Turkey, in the Black Sea Region.

Monumentum

Inscription of Sextus Severius Salvator from Cambeck

An inscription found in the ruins of an old stone wall at Cambeck, near Petrianae, recording a vow willingly and with merit fulfilled to Deus Sol Invictus by Sextus Severius Salvator, prefect.

Monumentum

Two terracotta lamps with Mithraic imagery from the Passeri collection, Pesaro

Two terracotta lamps formerly in the Coll. Passeri and now probably in the Museo Olivieri at Pesaro: the first showing Mithras as a bullkiller, the second in the shape of a bull's head inscribed Μέθρα ἱερός on the horns, both regarded as probably forged…

Monumentum

Bronze statuette of Cautopates with ram's head, found in Italy

A small bronze statuette reportedly found in Italy and now in the British Museum in London, depicting a cross-legged figure in Eastern attire (Cautopates) pointing a broken torch downwards with his right hand and holding a ram's head in his left.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief fragment from San Zeno am Nonsberg, Trentino

A coarse-grained yellowish-white marble tauroctony relief fragment found walled in at San Zeno am Nonsberg in the Trentino in 1911, now in the Museum Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck, showing part of Mithras slaying the bull and Cautes raising a flaming torch.

Monumentum

Terracotta lamp with SOLI inscription from Saarburg Mithraeum

A small terracotta lamp from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, bearing a beardless head on its upper surface and the inscription SOLI on its underside, found among numerous lamp fragments.

Monumentum

Marble statuette of Mercury with ram and tortoise from the Walbrook Mithraeum, London

A small marble statuette of naked Mercury from the Mithraeum at Walbrook in London, sitting on a rock with the stumps of wings in his hair and a purse in his left hand, with a ram lying at his feet beside which is a tortoise.

Monumentum

Inscription of Q. Mamilius Capitolinus to Jupiter, Sol Invictus and Liber Pater from Astorga

An inscription from Asturica (modern Astorga), found beneath three military standards, recording a dedication to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Sol Invictus and Liber Pater by Q. Mamilius Capitolinus, juridical legate and later prefect of the Treasury of Saturn…

Monumentum

White marble relief with bull and fig-tree from Italica

A small four-sided white marble relief of uncertain Mithraic attribution, found at Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville), depicting a bull walking to the right on the front, a fig-tree on the back, five ears of wheat on the right side, and damaged vine tendrils with grapes on the left…

Monumentum

Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla

The monument of San Juan de la Isla (Asturias) devoted to Mithras was preserved in the portico of the main church until 1843.

Monumentum

Stucco tauroctony room from Agurzano near Rome

A subterranean room with a stucco depiction of Mithras slaying the bull, probably from the fourth century, discovered at Agurzano near Ponte Mammolo on the Via Tiburtina outside Rome.

Monumentum

Marble dedication tablet of Q. Pompeius Primigenius from outside Porta Sant'Agnese, Rome

A marble dedication tablet found in the Vigna Curtii Palloni outside the Porta Sant'Agnese near the Praetorian Camp in Rome, recording the construction of a sacrarium dedicated to Sol Invictus by Q. Pompeius Primigenius, pater and sacerdos, under Septimius Severus and Caracalla…

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with white enamel pupils from Rome

A tauroctony relief from Rome, formerly in the Hoffmann Collection, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, with the god's pupils fashioned from white enamel and the whole piece heavily restored.

Monumentum

Base of Claudius Amerimnus the lictor from Rome

Flat marble base from Rome, with fragments of statue feet still resting on it, bearing a dedication to the Lord Sol in fulfilment of a vow by Claudius Amerimnus, a lictor curiatus.

Monumentum

Bronze lamella of C. Veratius Faustinus from Rome

Bronze lamella probably from Rome, found in 1729, bearing a dedication to Sol Sanctissimus by C. Veratius Faustinus, a soldier of the third praetorian cohort.

Monumentum

Mithraic texts from Santa Prisca

Preliminary readings of the painted Mithraic texts later revised after additional research and restoration.

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