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The New Mithraeum Database

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Altar of Flavius Verecundus from Carnuntum

This monument to Mithras and Cautes (or Cautopates) was erected in Carnuntum by the centurion Flavius Verecundus of Savaria.

 
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Tauroctony from Circo Massimo

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.

 
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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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Aion fresco of Caputa Vetere

Minto has claimed that the time god Aion was painted on the corner of the north wall of the Mitreo de Santa Capua Vetere.

 
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Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.

 
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Tauroctony from Arshawi-Kibar

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

 
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Tauroctony from Toronto

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

 
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Torchbearer of Porta Portese

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

 
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Painted tauroctony from Rome

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

 
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Tauroctony from Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.

 
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Cautes of Sisak

This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.

 
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Tauroctony from Becker’s collection

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

 
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Tauroctony from Split

This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.

 
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Larger altars and small finds from Jajce

Three larger altars and other finds from the Mithraeum of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 
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Tauroctony from Jajce

The relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Jajce Mithraeum is walled into the cult niche and surmounted by a roof.

 
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Tauroctony from Golubić

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in Golubić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near a cementery.

 
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Tauroctony from Ghighen

Vermaseren noted in his Corpus that he had been informed of a fragmented relief of Mithras killing the bull in "the museum at Ghighen".

 
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Luna in biga of Boulogne

This monument is too fragmentary to recod it definitely as a Mithras-monument.

 
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Aion of Porsione

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

 
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Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

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