#mithras deus

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Mithras slaying the bull, Tauroctony. Roman, British Museum.

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Mithras, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall! Thou descending immortal, immortal to rise again! Now when the watch is ended, now when the wine is drawn, Look on Thy children in darkness. Oh take our sacrifice! Many roads Thou hast fashioned: all of them lead to the Light, Mithras, also a soldier, keep us pure till the dawn!

— A Song to Mithras, Hymn of the XXX Legion: circa A.D. 350.

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Bust of Mithras in white marble.

It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1931 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R1471/1936).