The New Mithraeum Database

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A scholarly note recording that the concentration of Mithraic finds at Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis indicates the existence of one or more Mithraea there, with stone heads in the Delimoges collection possibly being Mithraic representations…

A fragment of a limestone relief from Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis, with the bull best preserved showing a belt round its body, together with traces of polychromy and remnants of the dog and serpent.

A fragment of a stone relief from Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis, showing the arched end of Mithras's flying cloak and an ear emerging from the bull's tail, possibly belonging to CIMRM 946.

An inscription on the base CIMRM 940 from Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis, recording a dedication to Augustus and to the unconquered god Mithras Sol, made by a dedicant named Castor.

A small stone base with a rectangular decorated box on its right side, found in the bed of the river Nohain during railway construction at Interanum (modern Entrains-sur-Nohain) in Lugdunensis, bearing on its top the feet of a statue and the inscription of CIMRM 941…

A small figure of Aion, said to have been found in the Auvergne region of Lugdunensis, resembling a similar piece in the Museum of Constantine, though no further details are known.

Two terracotta lamps formerly in the Coll. Passeri and now probably in the Museo Olivieri at Pesaro: the first showing Mithras as a bullkiller, the second in the shape of a bull's head inscribed Μέθρα ἱερός on the horns, both regarded as probably forged…

An inscription from Villa Vicentina, a locality near Aquileia in the Friuli, recording a dedication to Deus Invictus by L. Aebutius Eutychius, a freedman of Primus.

An inscription recording the completion and dedication of the Temple of Sol at Como by T. Flavius Postumius Titianus, corrector of Italy, by order of the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, with Axilius the Younger as curator of the city of the Comenses.

An inscription on the altar base from the Mithraeum at Angera, recording that M. Calvius Satullio dedicated a base to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on behalf of the inhabitants of the vicus Sebuinus.

An inscription from the place called La Oneda near Breno in Val Camonica, dedicated to Sol Divinus by L. Apisocius Successus for himself and his four patrons Marcus, Gaius, Lucius and Quintus, with a dagger with ribbons carved below.

A fragmentary inscription on the lower border of the limestone tauroctony relief from San Zeno di Romedio near Trento, partially reading a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by Marius.

A small limestone head of Cautopates, facing right, with a damaged nose and a stone pin on the reverse indicating it belonged to a relief, found on the slope of a hill near Heiligkreuz at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica.

A skeleton of a man aged approximately thirty to forty years, with arms tied behind his back and wrists bound with an iron chain, found lying on a fragment of the main relief at the back of the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica…

A fragmentary inscription from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, recording a dedicant's gift made a second time.

Five fragments of a red terra-sigillata vessel showing Cautopates with his torch pointing downwards, in Eastern attire and cross-legged, with the hoof of the bull's hindleg before him, found at Alesia (Mont-Auxois) in Lugdunensis.

A vase or plate bearing a representation of Mithras, reported to be in the Archaeological Seminary of the University of Vienne (ancient Colonia Iulia Vienna Allobrogum) in Narbonensis, but unpublished at the time of Vermaseren's catalogue.

An altar with a praefericulum on the right side and a patera on the left, found at the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1822, recording a vow fulfilled to Sol Invictus Mithras Saecularis by Litorius Pacatianus, beneficiarius consulis, for himself and his family…