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The New Mithraeum Database

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Tauroctony relief with raven from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

White marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Mithras in Oriental dress killing the bull with a girdle and the raven perched on the grotto's border.

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Tauroctony relief with double-belted bull from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the central scene with the leaping dog, serpent, and scorpion; the bull's body is encircled by two girdles.

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Bronze raven on dagger from Mithraeum I, Ptuj

Small bronze raven perched on a dagger from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio — a Mithraic grade symbol representing the corax, the lowest of the seven Mithraic initiation grades.

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Cautopates base with weathered inscription from Ptuj

White marble base from Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, bearing a weathered inscription and the remnants of a downward-pointing torch, identifying the statue as Cautopates.

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Altar with Cautopates bust and ram heads from Mithraeum I, Ptuj

White marble altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, decorated below the inscription with the dressed bust of Cautopates, a palm between two ram's heads above, and busts of Mithras on both lateral faces.

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Second memorial inscription of Primitivos from Mithraeum I, Ptuj

Duplicate inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, set up by Primitivos in memory of Hyacinthus; a companion piece to no. 1501, suggesting that the two inscriptions flanked the cult niche.

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Cautopates statue base from Mithraeum I, Ptuj

White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an inscription and the preserved legs, garment, and torch of a Cautopates statue.

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Memorial inscription of Primitivos from Mithraeum I, Ptuj

Inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, set up by Primitivos, contrascrip of the imperial procurator Caius Antonius Rufus, in memory of Hyacinthus — probably the founder of the sanctuary.

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Cautes statue base from Mithraeum I, Ptuj

White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an inscription and the preserved foot and lower garment of a Cautes statue.

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Altar fragment from Ljubljana

Fragment of a small altar from Ljubljana, ancient Emona in Pannonia Superior, preserving a dedication to Invicto Mithrae by a dedicant whose name ends in -quartus; the Mithraic attribution is not entirely certain.

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Tauroctony relief with pensive Cautopates from Ruše

Marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, showing a grotto scene in which Cautopates holds the torch downward against the rocky ground and supports his head with his left hand in a pensive attitude; the upper left corner preserves a bust of Sol.

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Weathered tauroctony relief from Ruše

Small marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, badly weathered, depicting the bull-slaying in a grotto-like niche with cross-legged torchbearers on bases.

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Tauroctony relief with long-necked bull from Ruše

Small marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, depicting Mithras killing the bull in a grotto, notable for the unusually elongated neck of the bull; dog and serpent approach the wound, and the raven perches above.

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Coin deposit from Schachadorf

Deposit of twenty-three coins from the Mithraeum at Schachadorf, Noricum, spanning from Claudius II to Valentinianus II and providing a terminus for the sanctuary's use.

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Two-register tauroctony from Philippopolis

Small arched marble tauroctony relief from Philippovtsi near Sofia, Thracia, divided into two parts by a horizontal rim.

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Mithraic inscription from Anazarbus

This dedicatory inscription by Aurelius Seleucus, found in Cilicia, aligns with Plutarch’s account of Cilician pirates performing foreign sacrifices and secret rites of Mithras.

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Ἀφροδισιάς (Geyre)

Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.

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Vasio (Vaison-la-Romaine)

Vaison-la-Romaine is a town in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Vaison-la-Romaine is famous for its rich Roman ruins and mediaeval town and cathedral. The old town is split into two parts: the

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Virunum (Zollfeld)

Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia.

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Icosium (Algiers)

Icosium was a Berber city that was part of Numidia which became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric in the casbah area of actual Algiers.

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