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The Tauroctony relief of Neuenheim, Heidelberg, includes several scenes from the deeds of Mithras and other gods.
Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.
Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.
Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.
Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.
The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.
Freedman who dedicated the first monument mentioning a Pater.
Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta 'by means of a divine vision', something unusual in Hispania.
The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.
Stele representing Apollo-Mithras-Helios in a Hellenistic nude fashion, shaking hands with Antiochus I.
This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.
This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.
here is the altar of Sarrebourg , picture tooken in 1890.
The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.
I see the Platonic Chiasmus on this fresco from Pompei. I think Mithras and Sol Apollo have nothing to see with earth, which is the work of Atlas. They carry the Platonic Universe. The Soul of the World (big) or the individual soul (small). ??
This monument representing Cautes with uncrossed legs was consecrated by a certain Anttiocus.
Pater who offered several monuments, including a temple, in Augusta Treverorum, now Trier.
The altar with a Phrygian cap and a dagger from Trier was erected by a Pater called Martius Martialis.
This remarkable relief by Cautes was found in what appears to be a mithraeum in Trier.