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Tauroctony from Pleven

This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.

 
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Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale

A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

 
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Inscription of Tellius Agatho in Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

This inscription found in the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres mentions the Pater Marco Aemiliio Epaphrodito known from other monuments in Ostia.

 
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Mithraeum of Zerzevan

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

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Marisa Costa

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Mitreo di Fructosus

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

 
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Sabazeo

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

 
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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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Mitreo Sacellum delle Tre Navate

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

 
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Basin of Mitreo della Planta Pedis

This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

 
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Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

 
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Head of Mithras from the Mitreo degli Animali

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

 
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Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

The Mithraeum of the terms of Mithras takes its name from being installed in the service area of the Baths of Mithras.

 
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Altar of Libella, Budapest

The dedicant of this altar to the god Arimanius was probably a slave who held the grade of Leo.

 
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Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.

 
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Inscription found in the Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

As this short inscription indicates, Aemilio Epaphorodito was both Pater and priest of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres.

 
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CIMRM 298

Graffito, inscribed by the possessor of a simple dark room, on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole (Reg. V, Is. VI, I); this house is situated annex to the Mitreo dei Serpenti (Becatti, MitreiOstia, 125ff,fig.24andpl. XXXVIII,4) (L.H.0.02-0.04).

 
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CIMRM 292

Lower part of a statue (H. 0.37), which certainly stood on one of the bases at the beginnings of the podia.

 
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CIMRM 288

The mosaic paved floor of the central aisle shows different figures: 1) On the threshold a large central arch formed by two pilasters; this main arch, from which hangs an oscillum is flanked by three minor arches on either side (seven spheres of the planets) (Becatti, PI. XIX)…

 
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CIMRM 261

Marble lion's head, which was fastened into a wall because the marble of the backside ends into a flat square (Visconti, 171; MMM 243, 1).

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