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This small bronze statuette of Mithras riding a horse is composed of two pieces.
Senilius Carantinus, also named Cracissius, was a citizen (civis) of Mediomatrici.
The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.
The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.
White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.
The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
The Mithraeum II in Stockstadt was in fact the first one known built in the vicus. It was destroyed by fire around 210.
Many thanks for the information, John. The page has been updated.
The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.
This altar found in Sentinum bears an inscription from two brothers.
Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.
This inscription reveals the names of 36 cultori of Sentinum, one of whom bears the title of pater leonum.
The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.
The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.
In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.
Slave of the imperial family and dispensator who repaired an image of Mithras in Tibur, near Rome.
This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.
Pater Patrum of Ostia, he officiated at the Mitreo Aldobrandini where he is mentioned in a couple of inscriptions.
This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.