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Aion statue on a crescent-decorated cone from Rome

White marble statue of the lion-headed Aion standing on a cone decorated with a crescent, entwined in seven coils of a serpent and pressing claw-like hands against his body, each grasping a key; formerly in the Museo Torlonia, Rome.

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Tauroctony relief with ant at the testicles from Rome

Tauroctony relief in the Museo Torlonia, Rome, remarkable for having a large ant grasping the testicles in place of the scorpion, with the raven on Mithras' flying cloak, the dog and serpent near the wound, and the busts of Sol and Luna in the upper corners; no torchbearers represented…

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Graffito recording a birth on 20 November 202 A.D., S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Graffito on the outside of the left wall of the niche in the S. Prisca Mithraeum, recording a birth before daybreak on 20 November 202 A.D., a Saturday with an eighteenth-day moon, under the consulate of Severus and Antoninus.

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Marble mortar and small finds from the S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Miscellaneous small finds from the S. Prisca Mithraeum including a marble mortar, pieces of glass, plates, dishes and lamps dating from the first four centuries A.D.

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Under-layer wall-paintings with Mithraic grade procession and dipinti, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Under-layer wall-paintings in the S. Prisca Mithraeum on the Aventine showing a further procession of Mithraic initiates in different colours, with partially legible dipinti including liturgical verses and acclamations.

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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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Marble statue of Mithras emerging from rock, S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome

Marble statue of the naked Mithras emerging from the rock, holding a dagger in his right hand and a torch in his left, visible to the knees, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso; the head is lost.

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Inscription CIL VI 752 recording leontica initiations, Piazza S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription CIL VI 752 recording the transmission of the leontica grade by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 359 and 358 A.D.

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Inscription CIL VI 750 recording Mithraic initiations, Piazza S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription CIL VI 750 recording the transmission of the Persica and Heliaca grades by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 358 A.D.

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White marble statue of a torchbearer from the Castra Pretoria, Rome

White marble statue of a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with traces of red painting, found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882; head, arms, and feet are lost and the monument could not subsequently be traced.

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Wall-painting of ivy-crowned figure on column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Wall-painting on the last column but one of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person in a short tunic with a wreath of ivy, carrying fruits in his left hand.

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Wall-painting of initiation scene on the left bench column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.

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Smaller finds from Capua Mithraeum

Miscellaneous finds from the middle of the Mithraeum of Capua, including a terracotta antefix with centaurs, basins, marble bases, lamps with a Sol head, and coins of M. Aurelius and Constantine.

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Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco showing two persons standing behind each other, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

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Fresco fragment from Capua

Fresco showing a standing figure in a small cloak approached by two other persons, from the initiation sequence of the Mithraeum of Capua.

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Two female figures from Memphis

Two limestone figures of women, possibly from the Mithraeum near Memphis, one standing cross-legged holding a branch with flowers, Egypt.

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Limestone lion statue from Memphis

Limestone statue of a standing lion with mouth half-open, legs and tail lost, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

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Damaged limestone statuette from Memphis

Badly damaged limestone statuette of a standing figure in Eastern attire, head, arms and feet lost, from the Mithraeum near Memphis, Egypt.

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