The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
Marble inscription recording the dedication of a cult image to the unconquered Mithras by a certain pater Valerius Marinus from Rome.
This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.
This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.
This altar mentioning the god Arimanius was found in 1655 at Porta San Giovanni, on the Esquilino.
This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.
Rich relief on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art showing Mithras sacrificing the bull accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates.
New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.
This scene of a feast from Mérida shows three persons at a table with other people standing beside them, one holding a bull’s head on a plate.
The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.
Fragment of a greyish marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull beneath a rocky grotto.
Marble torso found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini, dedicated to Mithras by a certain Atilius Glycol.
Partial marble statue of Mithras as a bullkiller found near Viale Latino, about 200 meters from Porta San Giovanni.
White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.
This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.
This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.
The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.
In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.
