Mithraic monuments including nudus

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The two fellows of Mithras from Marquise, Boulogne-sur-Mer, are fully naked but for the cloak and the Phrygian cap.

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This is the first of several scenes depicting the initiation of a new member into the Mysteries of Mithras, in Capua Vetere.

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A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn (rhyton) during the sacred feast.

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The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

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A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.

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The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.

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Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

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The folio depicts three tauroctonies and a Mithras Triumphantes standing on a bull with the globe in one hand and the dagger in the other.

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The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

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This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

Monuments including: nudus