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Marble base of L. Arrius Rufinus from Rome

Marble base found in the church of S. Thomas on the Monte Caelio in Rome, with a brief dedication to Sol Invictus by L. Arrius Rufinus.

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Marble base of P. Pomponius Clitus from Rome

Small marble base with a votive dedication to Sol Invictus by P. Pomponius Clitus, from Rome.

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Altar of P. Aelius Amandus from Rome

Marble altar in the Museo Capitolino, Rome, bearing a bust of Sol and a dedication by P. Aelius Amandus, a soldier of the equites singulares Augusti, in fulfilment of a vow on receiving his honourable discharge, dated to 158 A.D.

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Marble tablet of Brumasius from Rome

Marble tablet with a dedication by Brumasius to the holy table of Sol Mithras, set up in the presence of the pater with all the initiates.

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Marble tablet of Felix Messala from Rome

Marble tablet with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Felix Messala together with the initiates Catellus and Dianus, decorated with a branch on each side.

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Altar of Victor, farm bailiff of the Maeciani, from Rome

Tiburtine stone altar from the gardens of the Perettiani family in Rome, with a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by Victor, farm bailiff of the Maeciani estates, through the priest M. Stlaccio Rufo, dated to 154 or 177 A.D.

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Aion statue on a crescent-decorated cone from Rome

White marble statue of the lion-headed Aion standing on a cone decorated with a crescent, entwined in seven coils of a serpent and pressing claw-like hands against his body, each grasping a key; formerly in the Museo Torlonia, Rome.

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Coins from the S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Coins found in the lower sandy strata of the S. Prisca Mithraeum, ranging from the time of Claudius to the late 4th century, including issues of Commodus, Crispina, Diocletianus, Galerius, Constans and Valens.

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Leaden plate with Sol and a Sol-Mithras head in intarsio, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Strongly oxidised leaden plate from the S. Prisca Mithraeum showing Sol with seven rays about his curly head, together with another head of Sol-Mithras in intarsio found in 1954.

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Marble mortar and small finds from the S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Miscellaneous small finds from the S. Prisca Mithraeum including a marble mortar, pieces of glass, plates, dishes and lamps dating from the first four centuries A.D.

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Two Mithraic monuments from the Dolichenum excavations on the Aventine, Rome

Two Mithraic monuments discovered during the 1935 excavations of the Dolichenum on the Aventine, together with statues of Sol, Luna, Venus, Silvanus and Hercules, now in the Museo Capitolino; the only certain Mithraic finds from a Dolichenum.

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Fragment of large dolium with flute-playing youth between columns, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Fragment of a large dolium from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, decorated with two small columns supporting a facade and a youth standing between them playing the flute and holding a stick in his left hand.

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Small lamp with Victoria from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Small lamp decorated with a flying Victoria holding a crown in her right hand and a palm-branch in her left, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

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Small finds from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Miscellaneous small finds from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome, including animal bones, tusks of boars, marble pieces, bronze objects, glass fragments, and a tile with a Domitianic inscription.

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Marble pilaster with head of Sol from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Marble pilaster broken in two with ridges on all four sides and the head of Sol in a radiate crown at the top, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

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Marble statue of Mithras emerging from rock, S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome

Marble statue of the naked Mithras emerging from the rock, holding a dagger in his right hand and a torch in his left, visible to the knees, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the head is lost.

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Marble tabella fragment with dedication to the Invictus from S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome

Fragment of a marble tabella with an inscription beginning "invicto", from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome.

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White marble statue of a torchbearer from the Castra Pretoria, Rome

White marble statue of a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with traces of red painting, found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882; head, arms, and feet are lost and the monument could not subsequently be traced.

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Lost marble fragments of Mithras tauroktonos from Via Boncompagni 101, Rome

Ancient marble fragments walled into the staircase of the house at Via Boncompagni 101 (Boarding-house Cosmopolita), including a lower part of a Mithras bull-killing group and a fragment of a low-relief with the bullkilling; not traced by Vermaseren.

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Wall-painting of ivy-crowned figure on column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Wall-painting on the last column but one of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person in a short tunic with a wreath of ivy, carrying fruits in his left hand.

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