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The New Mithraeum Database

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Votive plate from Intercisa

Plate from Intercisa, Pannonia Inferior, with traces of red painting and an ivy-leaf in the middle line; bearing an inscription recording a Mithraic dedication.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief with Cautopates from Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Mithras killing the bull — head and most of the flying cloak lost — flanked by Cautopates holding the torch downward.

Monumentum

Standing woman over altar from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting a standing woman holding her right hand above an altar and a palm branch in her left; the lower body and base are lost.

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Coin deposit from Schachadorf

Deposit of twenty-three coins from the Mithraeum at Schachadorf, Noricum, spanning from Claudius II to Valentinianus II and providing a terminus for the sanctuary's use.

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Multi-figure relief assemblage from Rückingen

Group of sandstone relief fragments from Rückingen depicting multiple deities including a male head identified as Hercules

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Standing figure in niche from Rückingen

Sandstone relief fragment from Rückingen with an indistinct standing figure, probably a woman, in an arched niche

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Standing figure in jack-boots from Heddernheim

Three basalt fragments of a standing figure in jack-boots from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, with traces of red paint on the loin-cloth

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Cult refuse pit from Heddernheim

Assemblage of cult refuse from shaft M at Mithraeum I, Heddernheim, ancient Nida, including pottery, bones, a boar's tooth, and a bronze ring with Mercury

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Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

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Head of Mithras at Nemrud Dag

The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

Locus

Budaors (Budaörs)

Budaörs is a town in Pest County, in the metropolitan area of Budapest, Hungary. Before the Romans, the Celtic tribe of Eraviscus occupied the area for about 100 years.

Syndexios

Appius Claudius Tarronius Dexter

Neapolitan senator who dedicated a tauroctonic relief to Mithras tauroctonus to the Almighty God Mithras.

Monumentum

Mithräum von Künzing

The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

Provincia

Corsica et Sardinia

Corsica et Sardinia occupied an important insular position within the maritime networks of the western Mediterranean.

Regio

Corsica et Sardinia

Corsica and Sardinia preserve a small island corpus within the western Mediterranean diffusion of Mithraism.

Monumentum

Altars from the Phrygianum of the Vatican by two clarissimi

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

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Tauroctony relief from Fleischmann Collection

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.

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Altar to Mithras and Mars from Mainz

This altar has been unusually dedicated to both gods Mithras and Mars at Mogontiacum, present-day Mainz.

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Altar from Rome by Mnester and Philetus

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

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Tauroctony from Symphorus and Marcus from Aquincum

This sculpture of Mithras killing the sacred bull bears an inscription that mentions the donors.

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