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Hatra Temple

The city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.

 
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Cantharus to Deo Invicto of Trier

The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

 
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Tauroctony bronze of Szőny

Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

 
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Imprint of a gem with Mithras killing the bull

Glass paste imprint depicting the Tauroctony surrounded by symbolic figures.

 
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Gemme with Mithras killing the bull

Imprint on glass of a Tauroctony exposed at Winckelmann Museum.

 
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Base of Buda

This base was found in the 18th century and bears an inscription to the god Arimanius.

 
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Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni

The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.

 
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Second tautoctony of Sî`

The second tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze seems to have be made by the same sculptor.

 
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Tauroctony from Sî`

In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.

 
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Head of Mithras at Nemrud Dag

The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

 
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Cippus à Zeus Helios great Serapis

This small cippus to Zeus, Helios and Serapis includes Mithras as one of the main gods, although some authors argue that it could be the name of the donor.

 
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Parthian dipinto from Dura-Europos

Painted Parthian inscription on a ceramic sherd possibly referring to Mithras as a bull-slayer.

 
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Possible Mithraeum from Uruk

Large apsidal hall with podium discovered at Uruk-Warka, once interpreted as a possible Mithraic sanctuary.

 
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Uruk (Warka)

Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near-East or West-Asia, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq.

 
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Mithraeum of Crimea

The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.

 
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Frescoes from Susa

Sassanian-period frescoes discovered at Susa whose possible Mithraic interpretation remains uncertain.

 
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Gold coin of rom Bactria

Gold coin from Bactria depicting ΜΙΙΡΟ (Mithras) with radiate crown and military attributes.

 
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Chersonnesus Taurica

Ancient region of the Crimean Peninsula associated with the Greek colonies and Roman presence in Taurica.

 
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Susa (Shush)

Susa was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran.

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