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Marble statuette of a seated deity (Jupiter-Serapis?) from Mérida

A marble statuette found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1902, representing a seated deity whose head, arms and feet are lost, tentatively identified as Jupiter-Serapis.

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Venus bust and votive bronze eye-plaques from Les Bolards

A fine white marble bust of Venus, a head of a helmeted deity possibly Minerva, small female heads, and bronze eye-plaques analogous to those from the temples of Sequana and Apollo Vindonnus, found at the building south-west of the Mithraeum at Les…

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Graffito "Dominus Sol hic avitat" from the Caseggiato del Sole

Graffito on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole adjacent to the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia, reading "Dominus Sol hic avitat" (Lord Sun dwells here).

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Relief fragment from Labicum

Fragment of a bull-killing relief showing Mithras, the torchbearer Cautes with upraised torch, and the bust of Luna, found at Labicum in the ruins of a Roman villa.

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Mithras statuette from Carthage

Statuettes of eastern deities including Mithras, found in a walled compartment near a Punic cemetery at Duimes, Carthage.

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Tauroctony relief with torchbearers from Settignano, near Florence

A rectangular marble tauroctony relief found in Etruria, once in the Villa Martin at Settignano near Florence, showing Mithras slaying the bull with Cautes and Cautopates in Eastern attire cross-legged on either side and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners;…

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Tauroctony relief from Soriano nel Cimino

A white marble tauroctony relief found near a Roman villa on the northern slope of Mount Ciminus near Soriano nel Cimino in Etruria, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, the bull's tail ending in three ears of grain, the god's resting leg abnormally small…

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Two tauroctony statues from near Porta Maggiore, Rome

Two tauroctony statues formerly at the Villa del Grande near the Porta Maggiore in Rome, both lacking the upper part of Mithras and the bull's head.

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Decorated marble base with Mithraic scenes from Rome

Marble base formerly in the Villa Negroni and then the Museo Borgia at Velletri, with bas-reliefs on three sides showing Sol in a quadriga, initiates in Oriental dress and other Mithraic scenes; the collection is now dispersed among museums in Naples and Rome…

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Inscription CIL VI 724 dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by M. Aurelius Euprepes, Villa Giustiniani, Rome

Marble inscription from the Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia, dedicated by M. Aurelius Euprepes, freedman of the three Emperors, to Sol Invictus Mithras through the priests Calpurnius and Ianuarius, dated to 194 A.D.

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Small marble slab inscribed ALLIM (cacus), Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Small marble slab from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum bearing the inscription ALLIM, identified as a reference to Cacus.

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Graffito on the back wall of room M, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Partially legible graffito scratched on the back wall of room M in the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome.

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Two fragments of greyish marble with imperial tribune inscription, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Two fragments of greyish marble from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum with a partially legible inscription referring to the pontifex maximus and tribunicia potestas for the twentieth time, attributed to Trajan or Hadrian.

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Fragment of marble slab with dedication by L. Mo[...] Magnus, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Fragment of a marble slab from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum preserving a partially legible dedication by L. Mo[...] Magnus, described as devotus.

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Small lamp with a ram, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Small lamp from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome, bearing a representation of a ram.

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Fragments of small lamp with bust of Luna in a crescent, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Fragments of a small lamp from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, preserving the lower part of the bust of Luna set within a crescent.

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Fragment of large dolium with flute-playing youth between columns, Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Fragment of a large dolium from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, decorated with two small columns supporting a facade and a youth standing between them playing the flute and holding a stick in his left hand.

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Small lamp with Victoria from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Small lamp decorated with a flying Victoria holding a crown in her right hand and a palm-branch in her left, from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome.

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Small finds from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Miscellaneous small finds from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome, including animal bones, tusks of boars, marble pieces, bronze objects, glass fragments, and a tile with a Domitianic inscription.

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Bust of a man in military dress from the Palazzo dei Musei Mithraeum, Rome

Bust of a man in lorica and paludamentum from the Mithraeum at the Palazzo dei Musei, Rome; the head is lost.

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