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Your search Tirowite (Old town of Plovdiv) gave 279 results.

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Tauroctony from Plovdiv

This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

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Lyle Goldberg

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Dan Gold

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Jesse Towner

Notitia

The Golden Ass: Book XI

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

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Rhys Townsend

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David Bold

Monumentum

Gold coin with Mithras and Mao

A gold coin depicting a bearded god with a crescent facing another god with a nimbus and a radiate crown, identified as Mithras by Vermaseren.

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Golden magical ring from the Castellani Collection

Gold ring amulet formerly in the Schlumberger Collection, published as Mithraic by Cumont and later identified as a healing charm against colic and diseases of the uterus.

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Inscription "Soli deo" from an old stone architrave in Turin

A brief inscription reading "Soli deo", found on an old stone architrave in Turin (ancient Augusta Taurinorum) in Liguria.

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Tauroctony relief with raven holding fruit from Villa Ludovisi, Rome

A bluish marble tauroctony relief once in the Villa Ludovisi in Rome, showing Mithras slaying the bull with the raven perched on his cloak holding a heart-shaped fruit, the bull's tail ending in ears of grain, and the dressed busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners…

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Gold coin of Hooerkes with Mithras holding lance and sword

Gold coin of the Scythian king Hooerkes, reverse showing Mithras (MIIPO) in tunic with lance and sword, north-west India, c. 87–129 A.D.

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Gold coin of Hooerkes with Mithras holding wreath

Gold coin of the Scythian king Hooerkes, reverse showing Mithras (MOPO) standing with wreath and staff, north-west India, c. 87–129 A.D.

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Gold coin of Hooerkes depicting Mithras

Gold coin of the Scythian king Hooerkes, reverse showing MIOPO (Mithras) as a goddess with cornucopia, north-west India, c. 87–129 A.D.

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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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