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Altar with Sol bust from the Housesteads Mithraeum

An altar found in the north-east corner of the main room of the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1822, bearing on its capital the bust of Sol in a crown of seven rays and the inscription No. 859.

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Limestone tauroctony relief from the Housesteads Mithraeum

A large limestone tauroctony relief in several fragments from the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads), the vaulted main fragment showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes raising his torch beside the bull's foreleg, a crescent of Luna in the upper corner…

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White marble relief with bull and fig-tree from Italica

A small four-sided white marble relief of uncertain Mithraic attribution, found at Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville), depicting a bull walking to the right on the front, a fig-tree on the back, five ears of wheat on the right side, and damaged vine tendrils with grapes on the left…

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Inscription "Soli Milace Atticus" from the Sol altar at Pula

The inscription on the votive altar No. 756 from Pola (modern Pula), reading Soli above the head of Sol and Milace / Atticus under the head, recording the dedication by a person named Atticus.

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Inscription fragment of Marcianus, optio of the Second Legion, from Aquileia

A fragmentary inscription from Aquileia, probably dedicated to Cautopates, recording a soldier named Marcianus, optio of the Second Adiutrix Legion, who fulfilled his vow for the welfare of himself and his family.

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Mithraeum of Housesteads

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

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Borcovicium (Housesteads)

Housesteads Roman Fort is the remains of an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland, England, south of Broomlee Lough.

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Ennio Sanzi

I am an historian of religions. I currently studies so called "Oriental cults of the Roman Enmpire

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Cibinium (Sibiu)

Roman settlement of Dacia superior located in the area of present-day Sibiu in Romania. The site became an important urban and military centre, later developed into the medieval city known as Hermannstadt in German and Nagyszeben in Hungarian.

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Tauroctony relief from Oltenia

Limestone tauroctony relief from Oltenia, Dacia, of unknown exact provenance, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.

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Dionysus group marble of London

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

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Altar of Firmidius Severinus from Geneva

This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

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Altar of Aquileia to the brave god Mithras

This altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.

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Tauroctony relief in peperino from near Vicus Matrini, Via Cassia

A badly damaged tauroctony relief carved in peperino, fixed high into a wall of the old farm known as Le Capanacce on the Via Cassia near Vicus Matrini in Etruria, showing Mithras as a bullkiller in a vaulted cave with serpent, the head and left arm of the god lost…

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Tauroctony from Nesce

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

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Stucco tauroctony room from Agurzano near Rome

A subterranean room with a stucco depiction of Mithras slaying the bull, probably from the fourth century, discovered at Agurzano near Ponte Mammolo on the Via Tiburtina outside Rome.

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Marble dedication tablet of Q. Pompeius Primigenius from outside Porta Sant'Agnese, Rome

A marble dedication tablet found in the Vigna Curtii Palloni outside the Porta Sant'Agnese near the Praetorian Camp in Rome, recording the construction of a sacrarium dedicated to Sol Invictus by Q. Pompeius Primigenius, pater and sacerdos, under Septimius Severus and Caracalla…

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Altar of Aemilius Chrysanthus to the Invincible Sol

Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.

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Mithraic texts from Santa Prisca

Preliminary readings of the painted Mithraic texts later revised after additional research and restoration.

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Tauroctony from Santa Prisca

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

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