This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Enter
Provincia

Mithras in Sicilia

Sicilia connected Italy, North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean through some of the busiest maritime routes of the Roman world.

The Mithraic evidence documented in Sicilia reflects the island’s strategic role within Mediterranean trade and communication networks. Ports, urban centres and maritime exchange contributed to the circulation of Mithraic cults across the central Mediterranean.

Mithraic monuments of Sicilia

 

Randazzo Vecchio

This marble sculpture from Sicily, known as the Randazzo Vecchio or Rannazzu Vecchiu, contains some essential elements of the Mithraic Aion, the lion-headed god.

 

Tauroctony from Syracuse

The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.

CIMRM 163

 

Aion gold figurine from Geneva

This small golden figurine seems to represent the Mithraic god Aion, as usual surrounded by a serpent.

 

Tauroctony from Palermo

The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.

CIMRM 164

 

Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo

These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.

CIMRM 165

 

Inscription to Sol Invictus Mithras from Termini Himeraeae

This small inscription from Termini Himeraeae in Sicily was dedicated to Sol Invictus as protector of the emperor Antoninus Augustus.

CIMRM 167

 

Zodiacal relief fragment from Catania

Circular marble relief preserving part of the bull, a serpent and zodiacal signs associated with Mithraic iconography.

CIMRM 163A

Places in Sicilia

 

Catina

Catina occupied a strategic position on the eastern coast of Sicily beneath Mount Etna.

 

Panormus

Palermo is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.

 

Syracusae

Syracuse is a city and municipality, capital of the free municipal consortium of the same name, located in the autonomous region of Sicily in Southern Italy.

 

Termini Himeraeae

Termini Imerese is a town of the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, in Italy.

 

Tiracia

Inscriptions from Sicilia

Inscription to Sol Invictus Mithras from Termini Himeraeae

Soli / invicto / conserva/tori imp(eratoris) / Antonini / [aug(usti)].
To the Unconquered Sun, protector of the emperor Antoninus Augustus.

References

Back to Top