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The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.
Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.
This white marble relief depicting a lion-headed figure from Ostia is now exposed at the Musei Vaticani.
White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.
The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.
This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.
This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.
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.
This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.
This altar mentioning the god Arimanius was found in 1655 at Porta San Giovanni, on the Esquilino.
Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.
The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.
Marble inscription recording the dedication of a cult image to the unconquered Mithras by a certain pater Valerius Marinus from Rome.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.
The lion-headed marble from Muti's gardens has a serpent entwined in four coils around his body.
This marble statuette from Ostia depicts Cautopates lowering his torch beside a tapering rock associated with Mithras’ birth from stone.
The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.
Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.
