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Statuette of Mercury from Saalburg

Sandstone fragment of a Mercury statuette preserving part of the shoulder and caduceus.

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Dedication to Mithras and Mercury from Saalburg

Small inscribed plaque invoking Mithras and Mercury attached to a sandstone column inside the sanctuary.

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Statue base and hooked sword from Saalburg

Cult statue base discovered with a hooked ritual sword in front of the sanctuary niche.

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Altar dedicated to the invincible god

Simple inscribed altar dedicated to the invincible deity from Cologne.

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Relief of Cautopates from the Rhine at Cologne

Limestone relief of the torchbearer Cautopates standing cross-legged in Oriental dress.

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Mithraic sanctuary area at Vetera

Group of altars and a base indicating the existence of a Mithraeum near the Roman camp of Vetera.

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Mithraeum of Tell Atchana

Subterranean sanctuary at ancient Atchana tentatively interpreted by Woolley as an early precursor to later Mithraic temples.

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Dedication to Mithras from Colophon

Latin dedication to the invincible Mithras reportedly discovered north of ancient Colophon in Lydia.

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Relief fragment with Cautopates from Aïtodor

Corner fragment preserving the feet and lowered torch of the Mithraic torchbearer Cautopates.

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Relief fragment with Sol and Cautopates from Aïtodor

Only the left section survives, showing Sol above the torchbearer Cautopates beside the cave border.

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Ai-Todor (Gaspra)

Roman military and religious settlement in Chersonesus Taurica occupied between the 1st and 4th centuries CE, associated with the castellum of Characis.

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Patras (Patras)

Patras is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, 215 km west of Athens.

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Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana ’by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra’.

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Mithraic inscription from Anazarbus

This dedicatory inscription by Aurelius Seleucus, found in Cilicia, aligns with Plutarch’s account of Cilician pirates performing foreign sacrifices and secret rites of Mithras.

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Graffito on the sacred nitre

Greek ritual graffito scratched on wall plaster in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, mentioning the “fiery exhalation” and the “sacred nitre” of the Magi.

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Price list from Dura-Europos

Fragmentary Greek graffito from Dura-Europos recording the prices of everyday goods such as wine, meat, wood and lamp wicks.

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Altar to Cautes by Septimius Valentinus

Limestone altar dedicated to Cautes by the Roman optio Septimius Valentinus, discovered in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi in Pannonia Inferior.

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Altar for Fons Dei

Fragmentary limestone altar dedicated by Septimius Valentinus, an optio, probably discovered in Mithraeum IV at Aquincum.

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Samosata (Samsat)

Samsat, formerly Samosata is a small town in the Adıyaman Province of Turkey, situated on the upper Euphrates river.

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Malvesatium (Skelani)

Skelani (Serbian Cyrillic: Скелани) is a village in the municipality of Srebrenica, in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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