The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
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This marble relief, found in Sisak, Croatia, shows Mithras killing the bull in a circle of corn ears, gods and some scenes from the Mithras myth.
Small votive altar in white limestone from Aquae Mattiacae, dedicated to Deo Invicto by a miles pius. The top preserves the head of Cautes with his raised torch.
A small limestone altar from Bandorf near Oberwinter dedicated to Deo Invicto Regi. Found in an isolated structure not resembling a mithraeum, its function remains uncertain.
An oval carnelian gem from Carnuntum showing Mithras tauroktonos in a grotto. Sol and Luna appear above, with both torchbearers and a small altar before the bull.
This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.
The altar of Sol from Inveresk, Scotland, was pierced, probably to illuminate part of the temple with a particular effect.
The altar with a Phrygian cap and a dagger from Trier was erected by a Pater called Martius Martialis.
Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.
Statue in yellow sandstone found in the pit of the Mithraeum of Dieburg, showing Mithras standing beside an altar with bow and arrow, accompanied by a vase and associated with the water miracle.
This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.
This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.
The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.
Red sandstone altar from Stockstadt, featuring a square cavity in the front that contained a fragment of crystal and a small lamp.
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.
The Mithraeum of Marino presents an unusually elongated structure with depictions from the Severian period.
Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.
This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.
