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This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.
This white marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on the Esquilino near the Church of Saint Lucy in Selci in Rome.
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres was discovered in 1802 by Petirini by order of Pope Pius VII.
This inscription found in the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres mentions the Pater Marco Aemiliio Epaphrodito known from other monuments in Ostia.
White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.
Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.
Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.
Pater and priest of the Fagan Mithtraeum with several monuments to his name.
Valerius was a discharged veteran was a worshipper of the Undefeated Mithras in Künzing.
Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.
This large limestone fragment from Roman Salona preserves the hind part of the bull together with Mithras’ foot and traces of his red tunic.
Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.
Viminacium was a major city, military camp, and the capital of the Roman province of Moesia.
Imperial slave who donated an altar to Mithras for the benefit of the emperor Caracalla.
Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.
Marcus Statius Niger was a lion who erected an altar to Cautopates in Statio, the present-day Angera, with his brother Gaius.
Centurion of the Legio VII Gemina Antoniana Pia Felix who erected the only known mithraeum at Lucus Augusti to date.
A freedman of Septimius Severus, he was Pater and priest of the invincible Mithras, as mentioned in a marble inscription found in Rome.