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The New Mithraeum Database

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Lucius Antonius Menander

He was from Aphrodisias in Caria, where he erected a relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

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Tiridates I

Founder of the Arasacid dynasty, Tiridates I was crowned king of Armenia by Nero in 66.

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Iustus

Solder of the Legio II Augusta who dedicated a monument to Mithras Invictus in Isca.

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Chyndonax (Χυνδόναξ)

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.

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Proficentius

Pater sacrorum and founder of the Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo.

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Corbulo

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

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Antonius Valentinus

Princeps centurio and commander (praepositus).

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Zenobios

Commander of the archers at Dura Europos, he financed the second Tauroctony.

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Ethphani

Commander of a unite of Palmyrene archers stationed with the Roman garrison in Dura Europos.

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Flavius Lucilianus

Public horseman and consul under the emperor Caracalla, who completed a Mithraeum in Aveia Vestina.

Notitia

The Mysteries of Mithras

The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.

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Tauroctony from Osterburken

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

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Altar of Aelius Valerianus from Illmitz

Found in Illmitz, Austria, in 1959, this altar was dedicated to the unconquered god Mithras by a certain Aelius Valerianus.

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Altar of Rufius Caeionius Sabinus

In this 4th-century Roman altar, the senator Rufius Caeionius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

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Mithraeum I of Ptuj

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

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Tauroctony sculpture in the Sala dei Animali

This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.

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Mithréum de Valromey

This temple of Mithras has been discovered under the Church in Vieux-en-Val-Romey, in 1869.

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Tauroctony from the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres was discovered in 1802 by Petirini by order of Pope Pius VII.

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Consecration for Mars Meder

The relief of naked Roman soldier, wearing a mantle and a Phrygian cap, has been related to the Mithras' cult.

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The Golden Ass: Book XI

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

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