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Fragment of large dolium with flute-playing youth between columns, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Fragment of a large dolium from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, decorated with two small columns supporting a facade and a youth standing between them playing the flute and holding a stick in his left hand.

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Graffito naming Macarius from the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Graffito on the left wall of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum consisting of the single name Macarius.

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Wall-painting of ivy-crowned figure on column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Wall-painting on the last column but one of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person in a short tunic with a wreath of ivy, carrying fruits in his left hand.

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Wall-painting of initiation scene on the left bench column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.

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Black and white mosaic floor from the Mithraeum of the Nummi Albani, Rome

Black and white mosaic floor of the underground room used as a Mithraeum in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal; the mosaic ends about 1 metre from the side-walls, suggesting side-benches; Nummius Albinus was consul in 345 A.D.

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Second Mithraeum in Muti's gardens near the Via Nazionale, Rome

Possible Mithraeum discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens, described by Lanciani as a spelaeum cut in tufa with vestibule and cell with niches and altar, at the corner of the Via Nazionale and Via Venezia.

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Large marble tablet fragment with Mithraic text from the Via Nazionale, Rome

Fragment of a large marble tablet with large letters of poor 5th-century workmanship, found on the Monte Quirinale near the Via Nazionale, bearing poetic Mithraic references to the mystes of Ceres and the Invincible Mithras.

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White marble slab relief of Mithras tauroktonos from the Palazzo del Grillo, Rome

White marble slab showing Mithras as a bull-killer on a rocky base, found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robillant in a cellar of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus; Mithras' head, both arms, and the bull's head and tail are lost.

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Two marble fragments CIL VI 31030 from San Clemente, Rome

Two marble fragments of the same stone, with worn lettering, set into the floor of the church above S. Clemente, bearing dedications to Sol Invictus Mithras and to Jupiter Dolichenus.

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Roof tile with sacerdos Solis et Lunae inscription from Portus

Roof tile found at Portus, with an inscription recording the workshop of L. Aemilius Iulianus, priest of Sol and Luna.

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Marble vase fragment with Sol and Cautes from Portus

Fragment of a marble vase found near Portus by Prince Torlonia, showing a bearded head in radiate crown (Sol) and Cautes with upraised torch, with a Mithras representation now lost, now itself lost.

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Marble tablet inscription from Tivoli

Fragmentary marble tablet inscription mentioning Sol Invictus Mithras and a priest, from Tivoli (ancient Tibur), possibly of urban origin.

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Sol Invictus inscription from Aesernia

Altar inscription dedicated to Deus Invictus by Verus, an antistes, from Aesernia (modern Isernia).

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Smaller finds from Capua Mithraeum

Miscellaneous finds from the middle of the Mithraeum of Capua, including a terracotta antefix with centaurs, basins, marble bases, lamps with a Sol head, and coins of M. Aurelius and Constantine.

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Fresco fragment from Capua

Two scenes from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua, now indistinguishable.

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Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco showing a mystagogus pressing down the shoulders of a kneeling myste, attended by a third figure in Phrygian cap, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

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Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco showing two persons standing behind each other, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

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Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco showing a standing figure in a small cloak approached by two other persons, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

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Fresco of Cautopates from Capua

Fresco depicting Cautopates in Eastern attire between two laurels, cross-legged, pointing his torch downwards over a burning altar, from the Mithraeum of Capua.

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Centenarium Solis inscription from Bir Haddada

Marble plate recording the construction of a centenarium Solis by the governor Septimius Flavianus, found at Bir Haddada in the Ager Sitifensis, dated 315/316 A.D.

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