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Monumentum

Mithraic exvoto of Dalmatia
The altar that now stands in Split was dedicated to Invincible Mithras for the health of a dear friend.
TNMM396 – CIMRM 1873
D(eo) inv(icto) Mlithrael / L(ucius) Corn(elius) Apalaus/tus pro s(atute) M(arci) Vivi / Cresti amic(i) kariss(imi) / ex voto p(osuit).
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Altar with Inscription to Mithras of Rottenburg
This monument was erected by a certain Publius Aelius Vocco, a solider of the Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz.
TNMM562 – CIMRM 1308
Invicto / Mithrae / P. Ael(ius) Voc/co mil(es) l(egionis) XXII / p(rimigeniae) p(iae) f(idelis) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) / m(erito).
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Tauroctony of Fellbach
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.
TNMM563
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Riegel
A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.
TNMM54
Mithraeum

Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
TNMM97 – CIMRM 250, 251
Soli invict(o) Mit(hrae) d(onum) d(edit) L. Agrius Calendio.
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Altars to Cautes and Cautopates of Stefano Rotondo
These two parallel altars to the diophores were dedicated by the Pater and a Leo from the Mithraeum of S. Stefano Rotondo.
TNMM473
Deo Cautae / Aur(elius) Sabinus, pa/ter huius loci, / et Bebius Quinti/anus ex voto posu/erunt. Leo vivas / cum Caedicio / patre. Deo Cautae/opathi / Aur(elius) Sabinus, / pater huius loci, / et …
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Male figure with offerings from Dieburg
A standing half naked man makes offerings to an altar while holding a cornucopia in his other hand.
TNMM412 – CIMRM 1255, 1256
D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) // Priscinius Sedulius / Primulus fratres / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) l(aeti) m(erito).
Monumentum

Altar without inscription of Bingem
This small monument without inscription was found in Bingem, Germany.
TNMM725 – CIMRM 1244
Monumentum

Altar of Meknès
Two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, have been found in Meknès, Morocco.
TNMM655 – CIMRM 160
I(nvicto) d(eo) M(ithrae) / Aur(elius) Nectore/ga (centurio) vex(illariorum) Brit(tonum) / Volubili / agentium / l(ibens) l(aetus) merito.
Monumentum

Autel of Straton from Kreta
Straton, son of Straton, consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.
TNMM640 – CIMRM 2260
Στράτω/ν Στράρω/νος άνέθη(κεν) / τὸ(ν) βωμὸν / Ἡλίῳ Μίθρᾳ