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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

 
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Altars to Cautes and Cautopates of 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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Tauroctony from Circo Massimo

This remarkable marble relief from the end of the 3rd century was discovered in the most remote room of the Mithraeum in the Circo Massimo.

 
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Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

 
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Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio (CIMRM 430)

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

 
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Tauroctony from Leonardo Agostini book

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.

 
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Tarouctony of the Palazzo San Marco

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

 
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Taurcotony statue of the Esquiline Hill

Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

 
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Tauroctony relief of the Esquiline

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

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Tiberius Claudius Thermodon

Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.

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Marcus Caerellius Hieronimus

Freedman, Pater, priest and antistes.

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Symphorus

Dedicated a sculpture of Mithras killing the bull in the 4th mithraeum of Aquincum together with Marcus.

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Firmidius Severinus

Firmidius Severinus was a soldier who served in the Legio VIII Augusta for 26 years.

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Tiberius Claudius Balbilus

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

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Thrasyllus of Mendes

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

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Pinnes

He was a soldier of the Cohors I Belgarum, probably of Dalmatian origin, who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Aufustianis.

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Aurelian

Roman emperor of humble origin who reunited the Empire and repelled the pressure of barbarian invasions and internal revolts.

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Gaius Aufidius Ianuarius

Donor of the monumental Borghese relief.

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Septimius Severus

First African emperor of Rome (193 – 211), born in Leptis Magna, now Al-Khums in Libya.

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Julian

Roman emperor and philosopher known for his attempt to restore Hellenistic polytheism.

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