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Album of Portus

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

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Forged altar from Soulan

This supposed Mithraic altar from Soulan in the Pyrenees was later identified as a modern forgery, including both the inscription and the alleged cave context in which it was said to have been discovered.

Provincia

Histria

Histria connected the northern Adriatic to the Balkan and Danubian worlds through maritime and regional communication networks.

Provincia

Syria-Palestina

Syria-Palestina occupied a complex religious landscape shaped by imperial administration, pilgrimage and eastern Mediterranean mobility.

Syndexios

Aurelius Iustinianus

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

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Altars from the Phrygianum of the Vatican by two clarissimi

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

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Altar to Sol Invictus Mithras from Rome

Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.

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Altar of Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius

Marble altar dedicated at the Vatican Phrygianum in Rome by the Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius in 374 CE.

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Statue of a torchbearer from Apulum

This weathered limestone statue from the Mithraeum of Apulum depicts a standing figure in Oriental attire holding the head of a bull or ram.

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Mithra’s statue from Boztepe Hill

This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.

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Altars to Cautes and Cautopates from Stefano Rotondo

These two parallel altars to the diophores were dedicated by the Pater and a Leo from the Mithraeum of S. Stefano Rotondo.

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Altar to Semele from Cologne

This sandstone altar found in Cologne bears an inscription to the goddess Semele and her sisters.

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Alabaster tauroctony fragment from Cologne

Fragment of an alabaster relief from Cologne with part of a tauroctony scene. Only the tip of Mithras’ Phrygian cap and small narrative details above are preserved.

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Intaglio of Abraxas and Mithras

Gnostic amulet found in the ancient Agora of Athens, depicting Abraxas on one side and a Mithraic inscription on the other.

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Sol and Luna fenster from Rome

Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.

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Relief of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva from the Caelian Mithraeum

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

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Lion relief from Nemrut Dağı

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

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Inscription on the leonteum of Umbria

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

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Stone tauroctony relief from Rome

Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

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Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade

Two marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates discovered in the Mithraeum of Rusicade, accompanied by symbolic animals including a lion, scorpion, dolphin and bird.

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