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Torchbearer of Porta Portese

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

 
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Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

 
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Inscription of Aelius Victorinus the veteran, outside Porta Pia, Rome

An inscription to Sol Invictus Mithras found in the Vigna Patritii outside the Porta Pia in Rome, dedicated by Aelius Victorinus, a veteran of the emperors honourably discharged, with M. Aurelius Romulus as antistes and sacerdos of the cult.

 
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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…

 
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Two tauroctony statues from near Porta Maggiore, Rome

Two tauroctony statues formerly at the Villa del Grande near the Porta Maggiore in Rome, both lacking the upper part of Mithras and the bull's head.

 
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Mitreo presso Porta Romana

The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.

 
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Marble altar to Sol Invictus Mithras from Via Venti Settembre, Rome

A marble altar found in 1873 between the Baths of Diocletian and the Via di Porta Pia in Rome, dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Sextus with Titus Flavius Ianuarius as antistes.

 
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Tauroctony from Viale Latino

Partial marble statue of Mithras as a bullkiller found near Viale Latino, about 200 meters from Porta San Giovanni.

 
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Marble altar CIL VI 744 dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Vestalis and C. Vettius Augustalis, Rome

Marble altar from the gardens of the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia, dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as a votive offering by Vestalis, servant of the Caesars, and C. Vettius Augustalis.

 
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Base of bluish marble with encircling serpent, Villa Giustiniani, Vatican Musea

Base of bluish marble formerly in the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia and now in the Vatican Musea, Cortile della Pigna, with a round pedestal encircled by a bearded crested serpent biting its own tail, probably supporting a statue of Aion.

 
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Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

One of Roman Italy’s most important Mithraic sanctuaries, the Mithraeum at S. Maria Capua Vetere preserves a remarkable painted cycle of initiation scenes, offering rare visual evidence for the ritual life of Roman Mithaism.

 
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Bithynia et Pontus

Bithynia and Pontus preserve important evidence for the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Black Sea and northwestern Anatolia.

 
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Mystai. Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos

The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition.

 
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Verona (Verona)

Verona was an important Roman city in northern Italy.

 
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Glanum (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence)

Glanum was an important Roman town in Narbonensis near modern Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

 
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Vesontio (Besançon)

Vesontio was an important urban centre of Roman Gaul, today Besançon.

 
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Plevna (Pleven)

Plevna occupies an important position in the lower Danube hinterland historically connected with Roman Moesia.

 
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Troesmis (Iglița)

Troesmis served as an important military and administrative centre on the lower Danube frontier.

 
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Thasos (Thasos)

The island of Thasos occupied an important position in the northern Aegean maritime network.

 
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Teurnia (Spittal an der Drau)

Teurnia became an important late Roman urban centre in the province of Noricum.

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