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Reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates from Friedberg

Imported limestone relief fragments showing the Mithraic torchbearers beside the podia of the sanctuary.

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Relief of Cautopates from the Rhine at Cologne

Limestone relief of the torchbearer Cautopates standing cross-legged in Oriental dress.

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Torchbearer base with Mithraic dedication

Limestone base with remains of a torchbearer and an inscription to Mithras by Lucius Pervincius Sequens.

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Mithraic sanctuary area at Vetera

Group of altars and a base indicating the existence of a Mithraeum near the Roman camp of Vetera.

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Aion of Hedderneheim

The lion-headed statue of Hedderneheim is a reconstruction from fragments of two different sculptures.

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Mithraeum of Eleusis

A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.

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Two-register tauroctony from Philippopolis

Small arched marble tauroctony relief from Philippovtsi near Sofia, Thracia, divided into two parts by a horizontal rim.

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Antiochia ad Orontem (Antakya)

Antioch was the capital of Roman Syria and gateway between the Mediterranean and the eastern provinces.

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Inscription of Sahin

Altar inscription from Sahin invoking the most high heavenly god and Mithras in the Alawite Mountains.

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Mithraeum of Lambaesis

The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras’s temples in Africa.

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Inscriptions of Valerius Maximianus at Lambaesis

These twin inscriptions found in the Mithraeum of Tazoult were dedicated by the legate Marcus Valerius Maximianus.

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Altar from Lambaesis by Aurelius Sabinus

This altar to the god Sol invicto Mithra was erected by a legate during Maximin’s reign in Lambaesis, Numidia.

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Mithraeum of Skikda

Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.

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Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

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Ai-Todor (Gaspra)

Roman military and religious settlement in Chersonesus Taurica occupied between the 1st and 4th centuries CE, associated with the castellum of Characis.

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Mithäum II von Heddernheim

Second Mithraic sanctuary discovered in 1826 some 150 metres west of Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with finds in the Wiesbaden museum.

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Mithräum I von Heddernheim

First Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Heddernheim (ancient Nida) in 1826, with finds preserved in the Städtisches Museum at Wiesbaden.

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Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

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Nida (Frankfurt am Main)

Nida was an ancient Roman town in the area today occupied by the northwestern suburbs of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, specifically Frankfurt-Heddernheim, on the edge of the Wetterau region.

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Tauroctony from Aigio

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

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