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Altar by Marcus Aurelius Sabinus
This altar to the god Sol invicto Mithra was erected by a legate during Maximin’s reign in Lambaesis, Numidia.
TNMM616 – CIMRM 134
Deo Sol(i) in/victo Mi/thrae / M. Aurel(ius) / M(arci) f(ilius) Sergi/s Carnu/nto Sabi/nus prae/fect(us) leg(ionis) / III aug(ustae) p(iae) v(indicis) / Maximi/nianae v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito…
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Inscription to Mithras by Claudius Romanius from Köln
Votive inscription dedicated to Mithras by the veteran soldier Tiberius Claudius Romanius, from the Mithraeum II Köln, 3rd century.
TNMM559
D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) S(oli) s(ocio) / Tiberius Cl(audius) / Romaniu[s] / veteranu[s] / l(ibens) m(erito).
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Plaque of Astorga
This slab dedicated to the invincible god, Serapis and Isis by Claudius Zenobius was found in 1967 in the walls of the city of Astorga, Spain.
TNMM734
Invicto Deo / Serapidi et / Isidi / Cl(audius) Zenobius / Proc(urator) Aug(usti).
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Altar of Flavius Verecundus from Carnuntum
This monument to Mithras and Cautes (or Cautopates) was erected in Carnuntum by the centurion Flavius Verecundus of Savaria.
TNMM723 – CIMRM 1671
D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) C(aute ?) / T(itus) Flavius / Verecundus / Cl(audia) Savaria / (centurio) leg(ionis) XIIII / g(eminae) M(artiae) v(ictricis) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
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Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce
Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.
TNMM733 – CIMRM 768
Q(uintus) C(laudius) C.... / D(eo) i(nvicto) S(oli).
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Inscription of Flavius Antistianus from Rome
This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.
TNMM713 – CIMRM 336
Deo Caute / Flavius Antistianus / v(ir) e(gregius) de decem primis pater patrum.
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Tauroctony of Târgușor
This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a 'secret forest' in Moesia.
TNMM641 – CIMRM 2306, 2307
Ὣριμος / πατὴ/ρ ἀνέ/θηκε/ν. Φλ(άουιος) Ὣριμος Φλ(αουίου) Μακέδονος οἰκονόμος κατ᾽ ἐπιταγήν / θεῷ ἀνεικήτῳ �…
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Inscription by Claudius Thermodon of Bolsena
The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.
TNMM652 – CIMRM 660
Soli invicto / Mitrhae(sic!) / Tiberius Claudi/us Tiberi filius / Thermodon / spelaeum cum / signis et ara / ceterisque / voti compos / dedit.
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Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)
The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.
TNMM255 – CIMRM 1584, 1585
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro sal(ute) d(omini) n(ostri) Gallieni p(ii) f(elicis) / invicti Aug(usti) Fl(avius) Aper v(ir) e(gregius) l(ibens) m(erito).
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Groß-Gerau
In the Mithraeum of Gross Gerau, discovered in 1989, a statue of Mercury, a lion and an altar were found.
TNMM617
Monumentum

Base of statue from Mérida
This lost monument bears an inscription to Cautes by a certain Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus.
TNMM560 – CIMRM 797
Caute / Tib(erius) Cl(audius) / Artemidoru[s] / p(ater?).
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Tauroctony 593
This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.
TNMM164 – CIMRM 593, 594
Alcimus T. Cl(audi) Liviani ser(vus) vilic(us) S(oli) M(ithrae) v(otum) s(olvit) d(onum) d(edit)
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Altar with Minerva and a water god
According to the inscription on it, this altar probably supported a statue of Jupiter.
TNMM596 – CIMRM 330, 331
Iovi optimo maximo / caelestino fontibus et / Minervae et collegio / sanctissimo quod consis/tit in praedis Larci / Macedonis. / In curia. / Flavius Successus cum suis.
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Colchester
One of the rooms in a sustantive masonry building in Hollytrees Meadow was considered to be a Mithreum, a theory that has now been discarded.
TNMM73 – CIMRM 829
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Inscription of Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano
This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.
TNMM511 – CIMRM 362
Soli / invicto Mithrae / T. Flavius Aug(usti) lib(ertus) Hyginus / Ephebianus / d(onum) d(edit). Ἡλίῳ Μίθραι / Τ(ίτος) Φλάουιος Ὑγεῖος / διὰ Λολλίου Ρο…
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Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum
The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.
TNMM375
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) pro salute imp(eratoris) [[Commodi]] Auglustil pii / qui templum vii conlapsum impendio suo restituerunt / et mortalitat8is) causa convener(unt) / Marullo et Aeliano coln/s(…
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Altar of Mérida from Quintio
This altar, which has now disappeared, was dedicated by the slave Quintio for the health of a certain Coutius Lupus.
TNMM520 – CIMRM 794
Inuicto Deo / Quintio Flaui / Baetici Conim/brig(ensis) ser(uus) / pro sa(lute) Coutii Lupi
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Mitreo de Cabrera de Mar
The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.
TNMM30
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CIMRM 500
In the lower strata of sand of the Mithraeum, two coins of Commodus and one of his wife, Crispina, two of Diocletianus and one of Galerius, one of Constans and two of Valens were found.
TNMM1052 – CIMRM 500
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CIMRM 627
Marble slab, used as a tombstone in Comodilla's catacombs: "in vigna G.
TNMM1134 – CIMRM 627