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Monumentum

Basin with inscription from Mitreo della Planta Pedis
The dedicator of this marble basin could be the same person who offered the sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull in the Mitreo delle Terme di Mitra.
TNMM486 – CIMRM 275
[In]victo Mithrae d(onum) d(edit) M(arcus) Umbilius Criton cum Pyladen vil[ico].
Monumentum

Second petrogey of Aquincum
Another sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from the Mithraeum of Victorinus, in Aquincum.
TNMM478 – CIMRM 1756
Monumentum

Petrogeny of Santo Stefano Rotondo
The sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from Santo Stefano Rotondo bears an inscription of Aurelius Bassinus, curator of the cult.
TNMM152
Petram genetricem / Aur(elius) Bassinus aedituus / principiorum cast(rorum) pereg(rinorum) / dedicavit hoc in loco et d(ono) d(edit) / antistante A(ulo) Caedicio / Prisciano eq(uite) R(omano) patre
Monumentum

Cautopates from Casa del Mitreo of Mérida
The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.
TNMM242 – CIMRM 773, 774
Invicto sacrum C. Curius Avitus / Acci(o) Hedychro pa(tre). Δημήτριος ἐποίει
Monumentum

Oceaunus of Mérida
The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.
TNMM428 – CIMRM 778, 779
G(aius) Acc(ius) Hedychrus / p(ater) patrum
Monumentum

Venus of Mérida small sculpture
The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.
TNMM429 – CIMRM 785
Monumentum

Naked figure from Mérida
This sculpture may be a naked dadophorus, probably Cautopates.
TNMM243 – CIMRM 775
Monumentum

Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni
The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.
TNMM281
Monumentum

Tauroctony in the British Museum
The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.
TNMM328 – CIMRM 592
Monumentum

Lion of Les Bolards
The lion sculpture found near the entrance of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards is unique in its genre.
TNMM374 – CIMRM 921