The New Mithraeum Database

Marble group of Mithras killing the Bull sold by Antiqurium Ltd, New York

TNMM240

Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD, is a philosopher and author of Prometheus and Atlas, World State of Emergency, Lovers of Sophia, Novel Folklore: The Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat, and Iranian Leviathan: A Monumental History of Mithra's Abode.

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231

He was from Aphrodisias in Caria, where he erected a relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

Chrestos was a Pater who dedicated a relief to Mithras with his comrade Gauros.

Aelius Maximus identifies himself as a soldier of the Legio V Macedonica on a relief found in ancient Potaissa.

Marcellinus was an antistes who reached the grade of Leo in Rome.

Together with two other brothers, he offered a relief of the tauroctony in Rome.

Freedman, he offered a relief of Mithras as a bull killer for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

Dedicated a sculpture of Mithras killing the bull in the 4th mithraeum of Aquincum together with Marcus.