Monumentum
Mithras relief from Carthage
Small Mithras relief found in the upper layer of the tophet at Carthage by Cintas in 1949.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 858 ↔ CIMRM 119
In the upper layer of the "tophet" at Carthago, under which a very old sanctuary was situated, a small Mithras-relief was found by Cintas in 1949 (Br. 0.50). G. Ch. Picard in AJA LIV, 1950, 130; Fasti II 318f No. 2800.
CIMRM II 119
G. Ch. Picard in BATH 1946–1949, 366f. The group was detected in the neighbourhood of Hannibal Street. Only the lower part (Br. 0.50) is preserved. The r. knee of the god; the bull with the snake and the dog near the wound; the scorpion in the usual place. The sanctuary itself, situated near the harbour, has not yet been found. Efforts to get a photograph had no result.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
