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Inscription by Propinquos of Carnuntum

On this slab, Gaius Iulius Propinquos indicates that he made a wall of the Mithraeum at his own expense.

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Krater with weekday gods of Trier

The vase bears an inscription to the god but also 'king' Mithras.

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Isis de Mérida

The Isis of Merida is covered by a long dress that reaches down to her feet.

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Cautopates from Casa del Mitreo of Mérida

The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.

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Venus of Mérida small sculpture

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

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Mithraic vase of Lezoux

This terracotta vase features prolific decoration, including Mithras Tauroctonos, Fortuna, Cautes, a dog and Pan playing a syrinx.

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Naked figure from Mérida

This sculpture may be a naked dadophorus, probably Cautopates.

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Interpreting the Ponza Zodiac

Roger Beck revisits the zodiac circle of the Mithraeum on the island of Ponza, a composition unique within the Mithraic corpus. His reading places the monument in relation to cosmology, ritual space, and Mithraic doctrine.

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Mithraeum of Slăveni

The Mithraeum of Slaveni was discovered in 1837 on the right bank of the river Olt, in Romanati district.

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Cautes and Cautopates of Marquise

The two fellows of Mithras from Marquise, Boulogne-sur-Mer, are fully naked but for the cloak and the Phrygian cap.

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Temple of Garni

After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

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Mithra temple of Marāgheh

The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.

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Cantharus to Deo Invicto of Trier

The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

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Consecration for Jupiter and Hercules

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

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Tauroctony bronze of Szőny

Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

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Mithraeum of Aigio

The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.

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Mithraeum of St. Egyden

The 'Mithraic cave' in the Gradische/Gradišče massif near St. Egidio contained vessels decorated with snakes and the remains of chicken bones and other animals that were consumed during Mithraic ceremonies.

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Mariemont unveils (some of) the Mysteries of Mithras

The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.

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Tales from English Folklore #3: The Cult of Mithras

On Hadrian's Wall lies the ruin of a subterranean temple to a little-known god, at the centre of a secretive Roman cult.

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The Literary Holy Grail of Mithraic Studies, East and West: The Parthian Epic of Samak-e ʿAyyar

Prof. Parvaneh Pourshariati; 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Free University of Berlin, September 2019.

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