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The Mithras Conspiracy (2019)
Followers of a revived version of Mithraism in contemporary Italy threaten to overthrow the government and destroy the Vatican. Rome is in chaos. Earthquakes shake the city. The Pope is in a coma. -
Mithraeum
Mitreo Fagan
The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.TNMM98 – CIMRM 309
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Monumentum
Tauroctony of Chrestos
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.TNMM673 – CIMRM 554, 555
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Tauroctony of the Cortile del Belvedere
The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.TNMM363 – CIMRM 321
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Monumentum
Tauroctony sculpture in the Sala dei Animali
This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.TNMM208 – CIMRM 548
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Monumentum
Altars of two Clarissimi in the Phrygianum of the Vatican
Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.TNMM620 – CIMRM 513, 514
M(atri) d(eum) m(agnae) I(deae) / et Attidi meno/tyranno conser/vatoribus suis Cae/lius Hilarianus v(ir) c(larissimus) / duodecimbyr (sic!) / urbis Romae / p(ater) s(acrorum) et hieroceryx / i(nvicti)… -
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Aion of Mitreo Fagan
The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313
C. Valeri/us Heracles pat(er) / et C(aii) Valerii / Vitalis et Nico/mes sacerdo/tes s(ua) p(e)c(unia) p(o)s(ue)r(unt). / D(e)d(icatum) idi(bus) aug(ustis) im(peratore) / Com(odo) / VI et / Septi/miano… -
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Tauroctony of the Loggia Scoperta
Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras's birth restored as Venus anaduomene.TNMM209 – CIMRM 556, 625
Val(erius) Marinus pater sign(um) ǀ Invicti Mitrhe ex voto po(suit). 
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Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan
This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.TNMM106 – CIMRM 310, 311
Sig(num) imdeprehensivilis dei G(aius) Valerius Heracles sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) p(osuit). L(ucius) Sextius Karus et.