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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Antiochus I

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Chrestos

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

Syndexios

Publius Anthius Logus

Pater sacrorum attested in a funerary inscription from Murviel-lès-Montpellier, probably connected with the Mithraic community of Nemausus.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Verona

A white marble tauroctony relief of unknown provenance, now preserved in the Lapidary Museum of Verona, depicting the standard Mithraic bull-slaying scene.

Monumentum

Cautopates relief from Heddernheim

Fragment of a sandstone relief from Nida-Heddernheim depicting the torchbearer Cautopates.

Monumentum

Gold coin with Mithras and Mao

A gold coin depicting a bearded god with a crescent facing another god with a nimbus and a radiate crown, identified as Mithras by Vermaseren.

Monumentum

Bronze statuette in Oriental dress in the Walters Art Gallery

Small bronze statuette in Oriental dress from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, depicting a figure no longer considered a Mithraic object.

Monumentum

Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles

Small bronze torchbearer statuette in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, with restored feet and a missing torch-bearing arm.

Monumentum

Bronze torchbearer from the Cabinet des Médailles

Bronze torchbearer statuette in a short tunic from the Cabinet des Médailles, holding an upraised torch.

Monumentum

Bronze torchbearers from the Cabinet des Médailles

Pair of bronze torchbearer statuettes in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, originally belonging to the same sculptural group.

Monumentum

Black jasper tauroctony from the Seyrig collection

Black jasper gem from the Seyrig collection, depicting Mithras radiate slaying the bull, with the god grasping the muzzle with the left hand and driving a knife into the animal's neck with the right.

Monumentum

Inscription of the Legio VI Victrix from Corbridge

Inscription from Corstopitum (modern Corbridge) recording a dedication to Sol Invictus by a vexillation of Legio VI Victrix under the governorship of Sextus Calpurnius Agricola in AD 163.

Monumentum

Fragmentary inscription from Moesia Inferior

Marble slab of unknown provenance from Moesia Inferior, preserving only the opening of a dedication to Soli invicto Mithrae.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from unknown provenance

White marble tauroctony relief fragment of unknown provenance, preserving the foremost part of the bull and part of Mithras as bull-slayer.

Monumentum

Inscription of Aurelius Victor veteran

Inscription of unknown provenance, recording a dedication by Aurelius Victor, veteran ex praetoriano(?).

Monumentum

Mithras crowning Sol relief from Dacia

Marble relief fragment from Dacia, depicting Mithras placing a Phrygian cap on the kneeling Sol — one of the more unusual variants of the Mithraic iconographic programme.

Locus

Benifaió (Benifaió)

The Roman remains of Benifaió, or Benifayó in Spanish, are located on the outskirts of the city. Of particular interest is a rustic villa inhabited between the 1st and 4th centuries according to the numismatic and ceramic remains found.

Locus

Vercellae (Vercelli)

Vercellae was the Roman city corresponding to modern Vercelli.

Locus

Tridentum (Trento)

Tridentum was the Roman city corresponding to modern Trento.

Locus

Comum (Como)

Comum was the Roman city corresponding to modern Como.

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