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Venus pudica of Mérida

The Venus pudica of Merida stands next to the young Amor riding a dolplhin.

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Inscription of L. Sentius Castus of the Sixth Legion from the Rudchester Mithraeum

The inscription on the decorated altar No. 839 from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), recording a gift to the Deity by L. Sentius Castus, a soldier of the Sixth Legion.

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Decorated altar with rock-birth scene from the Rudchester Mithraeum

A decorated altar from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), with the letters DEO crowned with vittae on the shaft, surrounded by palm-branches, a representation of Mithras' rock-birth on the capital, and on the front of the die a naked figure grasping a bull's horns…

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Bronze tauroctony plate from Budapest

Bronze plate from Budapest, ancient Aquincum or vicinity, preserving a Mithraic representation of uncertain composition; no longer in a known collection.

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Small tauroctony statuette from Budapest

White marble statuette from Budapest, ancient Aquincum or vicinity, depicting a badly damaged Mithras killing the bull with dog and serpent; the god's head is lost.

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Tauroctony relief corner from Budapest

Right upper corner of a white marble tauroctony relief from Budapest, ancient Aquincum or its vicinity, in the National Museum since 1868, preserving part of the grotto border and divine busts.

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Altar from Gimmeldingen by Faustinus

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

Syndexios

Tiberius Claudius Balbilus

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

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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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Tauroctony fragments from Dolni Vadin

Two marble relief fragments from Dolni Vadin, Thracia, one showing Sol's chariot and the other the right lower corner of a bull-slaying scene; the two fragments may not belong to the same relief.

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Circular tauroctony from Kadine-Most

Small circular marble tauroctony relief from Kadine-Most in the Küstendil district, Moesia Superior, divided into two parts by a horizontal rim, with the bull-slaying in the upper and a figure or inscription in the lower.

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Vulcanus and Minerva relief from Gimmeldingen

Sandstone relief fragment from the Mithraeum at Gimmeldingen preserving the upper bodies of two standing deities: a bearded male, possibly Vulcanus, and a helmeted Minerva with lance.

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Mercury relief from Gimmeldingen

Sandstone relief from the Mithraeum at Gimmeldingen depicting a standing Mercury with caduceus and purse, accompanied by a ram and a cock; the head and upper caduceus are damaged.

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Mithraeum II of Aquincum in Victorinus’s house

This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.

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Fragmented Mercury from Aquincum

Fragments of this limestone statue include the head and torso of Mercury, holding the caduceus in his left hand.

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Base of Buda

This base was found in the 18th century and bears an inscription to the god Arimanius.

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Gaius Valerius Heracles

Senior Mithraic priest of Ostia whose inscriptions preserve rare and unique epithets of Mithras, including Incorruptus Juvenis and Indeprehensibilis.

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