Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.
Saturnus from Dura Europos. CIMRM
Jupiter and giants from Dura Europos CIMRM
Saturnus from Dura Europos. CIMRM
Banquet scene, and Cautes and Cautopates from Dura Europos. CIMRM
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CIMRM 42 Vermaseren's Corpus
CIMRM 42-2 Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
20 Dec 2024
Attention: This entry may not have been reviewed and could contain incorrect data.Around the relief a number of scenes from the Mithras-Iegend have been painted (see fig. 12, 6). The main colours are black, yellow and grey. Rostovtzeff in RM 1934, 189ff; Cumont in CRAI 1934, 97ff; du Mesnil du Buisson in GBA 1935, 8ff and figs. 8-12; Report, 105ff and PI. XVIII, 1. The thirteen pictures, each one of them in a trapezoidal frame, are divided from the larger bas-relief by a stylized painted garland. The key of the arch was formed by a central picture which divided the series of pictures into two halves…
This enigmatic fresco on top of the main tauroctony shows Mithras killing the bull, accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates, surrounded by burning altars and cypress trees.
This inscription by a certain Ioulianos, found at the entrance to the Dolichenum at Dura Europos, bears an inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras et Tourmasgade.