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Marble relief fragments of Mithras tauroktonos from S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome

Fragments of a marble relief preserving only the lower part, with Mithras slaying the bull, dog and serpent licking blood, a large scorpion, and Cautopates behind the bull pointing his torch downwards, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso.

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Marble tabella fragment with dedication to the Invictus from S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome

Fragment of a marble tabella with an inscription beginning "invicto", from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome.

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Fragment of tabula ansata mentioning Sol from S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome

Fragment of a marble tabula ansata with a palm-branch in the ansa and a partially legible inscription mentioning Sol, from the Mithraeum of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, probably dated to 253 A.D.

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Marble tablet CIL VI 725 dedicated to the Invictus by L. Aurelius Severus, Rome

Marble tablet recording the dedication of a shrine to the Invictus God by L. Aurelius Severus, under the presidency of pater Domitius Marcellinus, dated to 181 A.D.

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Inscription CIL VI 752 recording leontica initiations, Piazza S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription CIL VI 752 recording the transmission of the leontica grade by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 359 and 358 A.D.

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Inscription CIL VI 750 recording Mithraic initiations, Piazza S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription CIL VI 750 recording the transmission of the Persica and Heliaca grades by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 358 A.D.

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White marble statue of a torchbearer from the Castra Pretoria, Rome

White marble statue of a standing cross-legged torchbearer in Eastern attire with traces of red painting, found in the Castra Pretoria in 1882; head, arms, and feet are lost and the monument could not subsequently be traced.

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Lost marble fragments of Mithras tauroktonos from Via Boncompagni 101, Rome

Ancient marble fragments walled into the staircase of the house at Via Boncompagni 101 (Boarding-house Cosmopolita), including a lower part of a Mithras bull-killing group and a fragment of a low-relief with the bullkilling; not traced by Vermaseren.

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Graffito naming Macarius from the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Graffito on the left wall of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum consisting of the single name Macarius.

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Wall-painting of ivy-crowned figure on column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Wall-painting on the last column but one of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person in a short tunic with a wreath of ivy, carrying fruits in his left hand.

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Wall-painting of initiation scene on the left bench column, Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Wall-painting on the last column of the left bench in the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, showing a standing person pressing his left hand to his breast and extending his right hand towards a kneeling person whose head is covered with ivy.

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Marble slab inscription of Yperanthes from the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, Rome

Square marble slab walled in the right projecting elevation before the cult-niche of the Palazzo Barberini Mithraeum, with a dedication by Yperanthes (a Persian name) to the Invictus, inscribed in a red frame with traces of red and blue colour.

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Black and white mosaic floor from the Mithraeum of the Nummi Albani, Rome

Black and white mosaic floor of the underground room used as a Mithraeum in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal; the mosaic ends about 1 metre from the side-walls, suggesting side-benches; Nummius Albinus was consul in 345 A.D.

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Plaster relief of Mithras tauroktonos beside the wall-painting in the Nummi Albani house, Rome

Relief in plaster, fixed on the wall beside the Mithraic wall-painting (No. 386) in the house of the Nummi Albani on the Quirinal, with traces pointing to a representation of Mithras slaying the bull.

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Second Mithraeum in Muti's gardens near the Via Nazionale, Rome

Possible Mithraeum discovered in 1869 near the previous sanctuary in Muti's gardens, described by Lanciani as a spelaeum cut in tufa with vestibule and cell with niches and altar, at the corner of the Via Nazionale and Via Venezia.

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Mithraeum between the Quirinal and Viminal, Rome (16th century)

Mithraeum discovered towards the end of the 16th century in a vineyard of Horazio Muti opposite S. Vitale, between the Quirinal and Viminal hills, known from Vacca's report of a sealed room with many terracotta lamp-holders.

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Marble altar dedicated to the Invictus by Atticus pater from the Quirinal, Rome

Marble altar found in the pontifical gardens on the Quirinal Hill, with a dedication to the Invictus N(abarze?) by Atticus pater, decorated with a urceus on the left and a patera on the right.

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Marble altar dedicated to Mater Deum and Mithras by Sextus Rusticus, Rome

Marble altar found near S. Lorenzo in Piscibus in 1949, dedicated to the Great Mother, Attis, and the Invincible Mithras by Sextus Rusticus, vir clarissimus, pater patrum, proconsul of Africa between 371 and 373 A.D.

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Large marble tablet fragment with Mithraic text from the Via Nazionale, Rome

Fragment of a large marble tablet with large letters of poor 5th-century workmanship, found on the Monte Quirinale near the Via Nazionale, bearing poetic Mithraic references to the mystes of Ceres and the Invincible Mithras.

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White marble slab relief of Mithras tauroktonos from the Palazzo del Grillo, Rome

White marble slab showing Mithras as a bull-killer on a rocky base, found in 1928 by the Comtesse de Robillant in a cellar of the Palazzo del Grillo behind the Forum of Augustus; Mithras' head, both arms, and the bull's head and tail are lost.

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