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Mithraic brooch of Ostia

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

 
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Bronze inscription from Aldobrandini

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

 
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Altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis

The altar includes a slab with an inscription for the salvation of two emperors.

 
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Cautes from Newcastle

This limestone statue of Cautes is now exposed at Great North Museum of Newcastle.

 
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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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Mitreo presso Porta Romana

Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.

 
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Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

 
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Mitreo del caseggiato di Diana

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

 
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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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Cautes Borcovicus

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.

 
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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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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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Constantinopolis

Founded on the site of ancient Byzantium and refounded in 330 CE, Constantinopolis became an imperial residence in the eastern Roman Empire. In the 4th century, it was a key setting for interaction between traditional cults and Christian authority.

 
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Inscription of Pylades from Angers

This marble plaque from Iuliomagus, Roman Angers, bears a rare dedication to Mithras by Pylades, a slave of an imperial slave connected to the Roman administration in Gaul.

 
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CIMRM 167

This small inscription from Termini Himeraeae in Sicily was dedicated to Sol Invictus as protector of the emperor Antoninus Augustus.

 
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Stele of the Arch of San Lazzaro

This stele found at the foot of the Aventine bears an inscription of Kastos father and son, and mentions several syndexioi who shared the same temple.

 
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Inscription of two Gessii from Sentinum

Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.

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