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The New Mithraeum Database

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Cautes torchbearer relief fragment from Ganaceto near Modena

A white marble relief fragment found in a house at Ganaceto near Modena in 1845, now in the Museo Lapidario in Modena, showing Cautes in Eastern attire and anaxyrides cross-legged, with a fragment of Mithras' flying cloak according to Cumont.

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Bronze finds from Mithraic sanctuary at Angleur

A group of bronze objects found in 1883 in a pit dug into the clay at Angleur near Liège in Belgica, proved by Cumont to have belonged to the decoration of a Mithras sanctuary, now in the Museum at Liège.

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Statuette from Emir Ghasi

Rough-hewn statuette found at Emir Ghasi in Lycaonia, once thought to represent a Mithraic soldier; according to Cumont, a modern forgery.

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Bronze Sol typum from Augst

Round perforated bronze plaque from Augst, ancient Augusta Rauricorum, bearing a dedication of an aurichalcum image of Sol to Deo invicto; interpreted by Cumont as evidence for identifying the dedicatee as Mithras.

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Human skull deposit from Königshoffen

A skull and two human femora, the lower jaw missing, recovered from a small circular pit within the Mithraeum at Königshoffen; interpreted by Cumont as a parallel to ritual deposits of human remains in other Oriental sanctuaries on the Janiculum.

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Cross-shaped medal with Sol and Luna from the Spoleto Mithraeum

A medal in the form of a Grecian cross from the Mithraeum at Spoleto, showing busts of a bearded man and a veiled woman each with a radiate crown, identified by Cumont as Sol and Luna.

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Lost Sol statue from Nersae

A Sol statue headless and lacking arms and feet, mentioned by Martelli as existing at Nersae alongside a fragmentary inscription, with no further details obtainable by Vermaseren or Cumont.

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Lost Mithras relief possibly from Rome, formerly in Braunsberg

A lost Mithraic relief acquired near Rome and formerly held by the Lyceum Hosianum of Braunsberg in East Prussia, known only through a 1910 communication to Cumont; possibly identical with the relief from Macerata.

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Unfinished statue of Mithras from the rock, Rome

A stone statue probably found in Rome, depicting a naked Mithras emerging from the rock with his index finger raised to his lips and his right arm broken off, described by Cumont as an unfinished work never completed.

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Possible sanctuary at Kavag-Dağ

Possible Mithras sanctuary at a grotto entrance in the Kavag-Dağ, Lycia; the identification remains purely hypothetical according to Cumont.

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#262

We’ve put together a new table of cross-references of monuments to Mithras in several databases, including Vermaseren’s Corpus, Cumont’s Textes, CIL, l’Année épigraphique, Clauss / Slaby and Heldeiberg’s epigraphic databases, and more…

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Mithraeum of Qasr Ibn Wardan

According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

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