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Inscription of Aphrodisius

This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.

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The Acosolium of the Mysteries in the Hypogeum of Vibia

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

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Altar from Mitreo di San Clemente

The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.

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Main Tauroctony relief from Dura Europos

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

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Antiochus I shakes hands with Mithras

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

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Painted scenes from the Mithras legend at Dura Europos

Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

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Procession Fresco from Santa Prisca

Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

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Hekataion of Sidon

The Hekataion of Sidon, which depicts Hekate in her trimorphic form surrounded by three dancing girls, is the only example found to date in connection with the Mithraic cult.

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Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

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Triangular sandstone relief with crescent from Nida

Triangular relief in yellow sandstone showing a crescent in relief.

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Mitreo di Sutri

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

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Aion (?) from Janiculum Hill

Roman relief from a sanctuary on the Janiculum Hill (Rome), showing a male figure bound by a serpent coiled seven times.

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Gregory of Nazianzus on rites, tortures and orgies

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

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Oracle against the Christians under Galerius

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.

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Le dieu mithriaque léontocéphale

Le groupe caractéristique « lion, serpent, cratère » marque le rapport avec le culte mithriaque, car comme nous croyons l’avoir montré, ce groupe ne symbolise pas la lutte des éléments, terre, eau et feu, mais la participation des animaux-attributs au sacrifice, par Mithra…

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