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Monuments to Mithras

Monuments, inscriptions and artefacts related to Mithras and his cult.

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Aion of Orazio Muti
This monument has been identified from ’Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma’, a book by Flaminio Vacca of 1594.
TNMM113 – CIMRM 382
Monumentum

Column of Callimorphus
Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun ’Mythra’.
TNMM35 – CIMRM 17
Solem / Soli invicto / Mythrae / pro salute et incolu/mitate / Chresimi Aug(ustorum) / n(ostrorum) dispensatoris / Callimorphus arkar/ius eiusdem / votum solvit / libens animo.
Monumentum

Saul depicted as Mithras Tauroctonos
Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.
TNMM771
Monumentum

Intaglio of Abraxas and Mithras
Gnostic amulet found in the ancient Agora of Athens, depicting Abraxas on one side and a Mithraic inscription on the other.
TNMM547
AΔWNAIE ABPACAE AEHIOYW IAW CABAWΘ.
Monumentum

Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze
This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.
TNMM653 – CIMRM 501
Invicto d(eo) Navarze / Terentius Priscus / P(ublii) f(ilius) / Eucheta curante / et sacratis / d(onum) d(edit) c(ompos) b(oti).
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Saalburg
In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.
TNMM95
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Şehitkamil (Gaziantep)
New evidence for the cult of Mithras and the religious practices of Legio IV Scythica at the Roman frontier city of Zeugma on the Euphrates.
TNMM1388
Monumentum

Roman Marble Relief Panel with Birth of Mithras
Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.
TNMM248
Monumentum

CIMRM 595
Bronze statuette of Mithras in his characteristic bull-slaying pose, though only the god has been preserved.
TNMM1111 – CIMRM 595
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Crimea
The site of Ay-Todor in Crimea revealed a Roman camp, a temple with votive offerings, and a Mithraeum.
TNMM349 – CIMRM 10
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Fleischmann Collection
This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.
TNMM589
Monumentum

Aion of Villa Albani
White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.
TNMM123 – CIMRM 545
Monumentum

Tauroctony framed by acanthus leaves
This relief of Mithras slaying the bull, framed by acanthus leaves, was sold at auction in 2011 by Bonhams.
TNMM1387
Monumentum

Aion of Skikda
The lion-headed figure of Skikda includes a pine cone beside his feet.
TNMM318 – CIMRM 125
Monumentum

Iron sword and crown of Güglingen
Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.
TNMM377
Monumentum

Relief of Aion-Phanes
The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.
TNMM327 – CIMRM 695, 696
Euphrosy/n[e] et Felix. P(ecunia) p(osuit) / Felix pater.
Monumentum

Detalle en el suelo del mitreo: Luna
L.
TNMM107
Monumentum

Aion of Mitreo Fagan
The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.
TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313
C. Valeri/us Heracles pat(er) / et C(aii) Valerii / Vitalis et Nico/mes sacerdo/tes s(ua) p(e)c(unia) p(o)s(ue)r(unt). / D(e)d(icatum) idi(bus) aug(ustis) im(peratore) / Com(odo) / VI et / Septi/miano…
Monumentum

CIMRM 418
Reperta in ascensu Capitolii.
TNMM996 – CIMRM 418
Soli sacr(um) / C. Ducenius / C(aii) lib(ertus) Phoebus / filius Zenonis / natus in Suria / Nisybin liber / factus Romae / ex visu / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Mithraeum

Casa del Mitreo
The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.
TNMM1386