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Monumentum

Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte
The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman …
TNMM344
From Syria
Monumentum

Tauroctony of via di Borgo
This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.
TNMM649 – CIMRM 366, 367
From Italy
Deo sancto I(nvicto) M(ithrae) sacrathis (sic) d(onum) p(osuerunt) Placidus Marcellinus leo antis{ti}tes et Guntha leo.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Dragus
The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.
TNMM310 – CIMRM 1919
From Romania
Monumentum

Base with inscription of Priscus Eucheta to Navarze
This inscription, which doesn't mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.
TNMM653 – CIMRM 501
From Italy
Invicto d(eo) Navarze / Terentius Priscus / P(ublii) f(ilius) / Eucheta curante / et sacratis / d(onum) d(edit) c(ompos) b(oti).
Mithraeum

Mitreo delle Sette Sfere
The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the plan…
TNMM9 – CIMRM 239
From Italy
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Osterburken
Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.
TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293
From Germany
D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].
Monumentum

Intaglio of Abraxas and Mithras
Gnostic amulet found in the ancient Agora of Athens, depicting Abraxas on one side and a Mithraic inscription on the other.
TNMM547
From Greece
AΔWNAIE ABPACAE AEHIOYW IAW CABAWΘ.
Monumentum

Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim
This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.
TNMM198 – CIMRM 1083
From Germany
Monumentum

Relief of Aion-Phanes
The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphi…
TNMM327 – CIMRM 695, 696
From Italy
Euphrosy/n[e] et Felix. P(ecunia) p(osuit) / Felix pater.
Monumentum

First Tauroctony relief of Dura Europos
One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.
TNMM179 – CIMRM 37, 38
From Syria
Ἔθφανει ἰστρατηγα