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Locus

Labicum (Monte Compatri)

Labici or Labicum or Lavicum was an ancient city of Latium, in what is now central Italy, lying in the territory of the modern Monte Compatri, about 20 km SE from Rome, on the northern slopes of the Alban Hills.

Monumentum

Two small heads in Phrygian caps from Cataio

Two small marble heads in Phrygian caps from the Castle at Cataio in the Veneto, cited by Dütschke, which may belong to torchbearer figures.

Monumentum

Marble relief of standing torchbearer from Cataio

A large relief in Italian marble kept in the gallery of the Castle at Cataio in the Veneto, depicting a standing torchbearer who holds his torch with both hands.

Monumentum

Inscription of M. Calvius Satullio from the Angera Mithraeum

An inscription on the altar base from the Mithraeum at Angera, recording that M. Calvius Satullio dedicated a base to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on behalf of the inhabitants of the vicus Sebuinus.

Socius

Fahim Ennouhi

Scholar specializing in the history of ancient North Africa, with a particular interest in the Oriental cults (Anatolian, Egyptian, Syrian, and Iranian) that spread throughout this region.

Monumentum

Inscription "Deo Mithrae" from a fullonica at Pula

A brief inscription reading D(eo) M(ithrae), found inside a fullonica at Pola (modern Pula) in a room that had once served as a vestibule.

Monumentum

Military inscription of Flavius Exuperatus and others from Aquileia

A military inscription from Aquileia, dedicated to the Invincible Mithras by Flavius Exuperatus and several soldiers from the Third Italic and Thirteenth Gemina legions, acting as lustration agents for their commanders Flavius Sabinus and Aurelius Zeno, dated to around 244 A.D…

Monumentum

Two inscriptions of Q. Baienus Proculus from Aquileia

Two inscriptions found at Aquileia in 1805, both dedicated by Q. Baienus Proculus as pater, the first to Cautopates and the second to Cautes.

Syndexios

Nero

Roman emperor whose ceremonial reception of Tiridates I of Armenia established one of the earliest recorded links between Mithras and the Roman imperial court.

Syndexios

Commodus

Roman emperor traditionally regarded as the first ruler initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Santiponce

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.

Monumentum

Inscription of Aelius Victorinus the veteran, outside Porta Pia, Rome

An inscription to Sol Invictus Mithras found in the Vigna Patritii outside the Porta Pia in Rome, dedicated by Aelius Victorinus, a veteran of the emperors honourably discharged, with M. Aurelius Romulus as antistes and sacerdos of the cult.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with white enamel pupils from Rome

A tauroctony relief from Rome, formerly in the Hoffmann Collection, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, with the god's pupils fashioned from white enamel and the whole piece heavily restored.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

Monumentum

Mithraic relief from Rome

Roman Mithraic relief illustrated in figure 171 of Vermaseren’s catalogue.

Monumentum

Tauroctony 593

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

Monumentum

Greek inscription of Balbillus from Rome

Greek inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Balbillus, saved from the waters, in the presence of Bassus the priest, belonging to the Mithraic grade of Leo.

Monumentum

Lost Mithraic find from Rome

Mithraic object or evidence from Rome reported as no longer preserved.

Monumentum

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.

Monumentum

Probable Mithraeum on the Aventine between S. Saba and Via Salvator, Rome

Roman building on the Aventine between the eastern side of S. Saba and Via Salvator, probably used as a Mithraeum at the end of the 4th century, with a long corridor bearing three semicircular niches and a large external basin.

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