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Tiburtine stone tablet CIL VI 659 dedicated to Sol Invictus by T. Aelius Tryfon, Rome

Tiburtine stone tablet found in 1740 near S. Balbina, with a dedication by T. Aelius Tryfon, priest of Sol Invictus, to the Invicti and Silvanus, erected after a vision.

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Marble slab dedicated to the two Invicti Augusti, bench p, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Marble slab walled into the ledge of bench p in the S. Prisca Mithraeum, with a brief dedication to the two Invicti domini Augusti.

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Marble base of two stacked vases supporting a statue, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Marble base from the S. Prisca Mithraeum composed of two vases stacked on top of each other, which probably supported a statue.

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Pieces of roughly worked stone possibly representing Mithras' rock-birth, Caracalla Mithraeum, Rome

Pieces of roughly worked stone from the Caracalla Mithraeum which may represent Mithras' rock-birth.

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Marble statue of naked Venus wringing her hair, Caracalla Mithraeum, Rome

Marble statue of Venus entirely naked in the act of leaving her bath, wringing her hair which streams over her shoulders, with a dolphin by her side, found in the small room of the Caracalla Mithraeum; the head is lost.

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Marble slab with pierced star dedicated to the Invictus by L. Reminius Fortunatus, Rome

Marble slab from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum bearing a pierced star in the centre and a dedication to the Invictus by L. Reminius Fortunatus.

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Fragments of small lamp with bust of Luna in a crescent, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Fragments of a small lamp from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, preserving the lower part of the bust of Luna set within a crescent.

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Bust of a man in military dress from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Bust of a man in lorica and paludamentum from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome; the head is lost.

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Base of Venus statuette from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Base of a Venus statuette preserving only the feet and a jug with a cloth on the right side, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome; a second broken base may also have belonged to a Venus statuette.

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Lower part of Minerva statuette from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Lower part of a small statuette of Minerva in a long chiton, leaning on a shield with her left hand, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

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Marble pilaster with head of Sol from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Marble pilaster broken in two with ridges on all four sides and the head of Sol in a radiate crown at the top, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

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Two white marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from the Palatine, Rome

Pair of white marble statues — Cautes with upraised torch and a cock, and Cautopates with a bird at his feet — found in 1886 on the north side of the Palatine between the hill and Via S. Teodoro, with traces of red painting on base and sides.

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Marble statue of Mithras emerging from rock, S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome

Marble statue of the naked Mithras emerging from the rock, holding a dagger in his right hand and a torch in his left, visible to the knees, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the head is lost.

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Marble statue of Cautopates with cock from S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome

Marble statue of Cautopates in Eastern attire, cross-legged, leaning against a trunk and rocky stone with a cock beside his left foot, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the greater part of his arms and torch are lost.

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White marble statue of a torchbearer from the Castra Pretoria, Rome

White marble statue of a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with traces of red painting, found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882; head, arms, and feet are lost and the monument could not subsequently be traced.

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Lost marble fragments of Mithras tauroktonos from Via Boncompagni 101, Rome

Ancient marble fragments walled into the staircase of the house at Via Boncompagni 101 (Boarding-house Cosmopolita), including a lower part of a Mithras bull-killing group and a fragment of a low-relief with the bullkilling; not traced by Vermaseren.

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Plaster relief of Mithras tauroktonos beside the wall-painting in the Nummi Albani house, Rome

Relief in plaster, fixed on the wall beside the Mithraic wall-painting (No. 386) in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal, with traces pointing to a representation of Mithras slaying the bull.

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Marble altar dedicated to Mater Deum and Mithras by Sextus Rusticus, Rome

Marble altar found near S. Lorenzo in Piscibus in 1949, dedicated to the Great Mother, Attis, and the Invincible Mithras by Sextus Rusticus, vir clarissimus, pater patrum, proconsul of Africa between 371 and 373 A.D.

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Marble relief with Sol, Jupiter Dolichenus and Luna from the Castra, Rome

Marble relief with the dressed busts of Sol with five rays, a long-bearded man, and Luna with crescent, found in the camp of the equites singulares near the Scala Santa, now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme.

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Marble statuette of the Good Shepherd from San Clemente, Rome

Marble statuette representing a bearded person as the Good Shepherd, found in the Dominicum Clementis opposite the Mithraeum of San Clemente; it definitively represents S. Peter, not a Mithraic father of the mysteries.

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