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  • Notitia

    Mariemont dévoile
    (en partie) les Mystères de Mithra

    L'exposition Le Mystère de Mithra s'initie au Musée de Mariemont, en Belgique, patrie de Franz Cumont, père des études sur le dieu solaire.
  • Notitia

    The Mystery of Mithras: Exploring the heart of a Roman cult

    Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.
  • 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

  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum d’Angers

    The Mithraeum or Angers contained numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps and a ceramic vessel engraved with a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

    TNMM199

  • Monumentum

    Inscription of Aphrodisius

    This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.

    TNMM536 – CIMRM 151

    Mithrae / Aphrodisius / Corneliorum / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) a(nimo).
  • Monumentum

    Weapons from Les Bolards

    A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.

    TNMM678 – CIMRM 925

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of La Bâtie-Montsaléon

    This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

    TNMM500 – CIMRM 898, 899

    [Deo Soli in]victo M. Iulius Maternia/[n]us ex voto.
  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum de Vienne

    Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

    TNMM293 – CIMRM 901, 902

    Deo Cau/te
  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum de Mandelieu

    Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.

    TNMM598

  • Monumentum

    Rock birth from St Aubin

    Mithras Petrogenitus from Saint-Aubin en France.

    TNMM230 – CIMRM 894

  • Monumentum

    Aion of Arles

    The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.

    TNMM148 – CIMRM 879

  • Socius

    Marie Beyens

  • Monumentum

    Grand camée de France

    Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

    TNMM577

  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol

    The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.

    TNMM62 – CIMRM 895

  • Monumentum

    Intaglio of chalcedony at the BnF

    This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

    TNMM279

  • Monumentum

    Head of Mithras of Mackwiller

    This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

    TNMM117 – CIMRM 1332

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

    The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

    TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 967

    In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) deo inv[ict]o Marceleus Marianus / d(e) / s(uo) p(osuit)
  • Monumentum

    Heracles captures the Golden Hind of Artemis

    Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.

    TNMM326

 
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