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Mithras-inscription of Speyer

This monument with an inscription to the god Sol Mithras was found in front of the cathedral of Speyer during some sewer works.

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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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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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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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Key of Mithraeum III at Nida

The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.

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Altar with Inscription to Mithras of Rottenburg

This monument was erected by a certain Publius Aelius Vocco, a solider of the Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz.

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Mithras riding a horse from Neuenheim

Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.

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Mitreo dei Serpenti

The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.

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Lecturer in Ancient History

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Mithraeum V of Ptuj

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

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Inscription of the Olympius for a Leo

The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.

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Cautopates in the Walters Art Museum

This fragmentary relief shows Cautopates bordered by three of the six zodiacal signs with which He is associated: Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio.

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Une SOCIETE SECRETE au cœur de l'Empire Romain ? - LE CULTE DE MITHRA

Des rituels mystérieux, une hiérarchie gradée au sein d’un culte énigmatique, une société considérée pendant longtemps comme secrète au sein de l’Empire Romain…

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Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

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Mithras carrying the bull

Sculpture depicting Mithras carrying a young bull on his shoulders.

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Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

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Petrogeny from Santo Stefano Rotondo

The sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from Santo Stefano Rotondo bears an inscription of Aurelius Bassinus, curator of the cult.

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Cautes and Cautópates of Palazzo Imperiale

The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.

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Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida

The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.

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