The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.
This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.
This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.
Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.
This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.
Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.
This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.
This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.
The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.
This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.
This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.
This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.
This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.
This inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras Serapis by a certain Ioulios Pyrros is now lost.
This 3rd century marble relief of Silvanus is the only sculpture found in Mitreo Aldobrandini.
This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.
