The New Mithraeum Database

Alexander the Great seized Sidon from the Persians in 333 BC. It became a Roman colony during the reign of Elagabalus.

Pater nominos in Sidon, he consecrated a number of sculptures, including a Hecataion.

Les monuments mithriaques sont rares en Syrie. Les sculptures de Sidon, datées de 188, constituent l’essentiel de la documentation malgré des incertitudes sur leur origine exacte.

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

TNMM142 – CIMRM 75, 1349

The Hekataion of Sidon shows a triple Hekate surrounded by three dancing nymphs.

TNMM305 – CIMRM 84, 1249

The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.

TNMM11 – CIMRM 74, 3020

The Mithras killing the bull sculpture from Sidon, currently Lebanon.

TNMM156 – CIMRM 76, 1037

There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

TNMM306 – CIMRM 86, 844

The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.

TNMM159 – CIMRM 80, 695

Cautopates sculpture of Sidon features a snake near his left leg.

TNMM160 – CIMRM 81, 613

Sculpture depicting Mithras carrying a young bull on his shoulders.

TNMM158 – CIMRM 77, 680

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

TNMM161 – CIMRM 82, 651

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.

TNMM162 – CIMRM 83, 599

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

TNMM686 – CIMRM 87, 286

Este es un libro que pretende esbozar un panorama general de los documentos mitraicos repartidos a lo largo del Imperio romano.

Avant-propos Ce volume comprend, à côté de nombreux comptes rendus, regroupés dans le fascicule 2, une série de dossiers traitant de thèmes chers à la revue (l'Orient hellénisé), ou illustrant une approche pluridisciplinaire. Trois d'entre eux…

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71, 483

The large number of monuments found at the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa and the sheer size of the temple are unusual.

TNMM57 – CIMRM 2027, 1446

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

TNMM429 – CIMRM 785, 701

The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.

TNMM221, 1587