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Monuments to Mithras

Monuments, inscriptions and artefacts related to Mithras and his cult.

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Cippus from the Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte
This small monument bear the inscriptions of a certain Caelius Ermeros, antistes at the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.
TNMM583 – CIMRM 269
C. Caelius E[r]/meros / antis/tes h[ui]/us loc[i] / fecit / s(ua) p(ecunia).
Monumentum

Inscription of Sabinus from San Clemente
This marble slab, found in the Mithraeum of San Clemente, bears an inscription by a certain Aelius Sabinus for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.
TNMM739 – CIMRM 347
[Pro salute / T. Aeli Antoni/ni] Aug(usti) e[t M(arci) Aeli / Au]reli Caes(aris) et / [L. Aur(eli) C]ommodi fil(iorum) / [Ael(ius?)] Sabinus c[ enturio ]leg(ionis) ... / [Sol?]i v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibe…
Monumentum

Bust of Sol from San Clemente
This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.
TNMM738 – CIMRM 343
Monumentum

Fragment of a Tauroctony from Ostia
This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.
TNMM737 – CIMRM 316
Monumentum

Prostrate figure fresco of Capua Vetere
Representation of a person lying prostrate on the ground between two other walking figures on the Mitreo of Santa Capua Vetere.
TNMM736 – CIMRM 193
Monumentum

Aion fresco of Caputa Vetere
Minto has claimed that the time god Aion was painted on the corner of the north wall of the Mitreo de Santa Capua Vetere.
TNMM735 – CIMRM 185
Mithraeum

Mithréum de Dyo
A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.
TNMM347
Monumentum

Slab of Quintus Claudius from Santiponce
Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.
TNMM733 – CIMRM 768
Q(uintus) C(laudius) C.... / D(eo) i(nvicto) S(oli).
Monumentum

Altar of Malaga
This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.
TNMM732 – CIMRM 767
L(ucius) Servilius Supera/tus Domino Invicto / donum libens ani/mo posuit / ara(m) merenti.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Arshawi-Kibar
This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.
TNMM224 – CIMRM 71
Monumentum

Altars of Dura Europos
Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.
TNMM731 – CIMRM 35, 36
Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg
The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.
TNMM730 – CIMRM 968, 969
ar / ... marli ... Marc/ellius Maria[nu]s de / suo posuit.
Monumentum

Petrogeny with a sheaf of wheat of Cologne
In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.
TNMM728
Monumentum

Head of Mithras of Cologne
This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.
TNMM727 – CIMRM 1022
Mithraeum

Mithräum I von Köln
The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.
TNMM352 – CIMRM 1018
Monumentum

Cultic mithraic vase of Zeughausstraße
The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.
TNMM378 – CIMRM 1020
Monumentum

Altar without inscription of Bingem
This small monument without inscription was found in Bingem, Germany.
TNMM725 – CIMRM 1244
Monumentum

Portable tauroctony of Vienna
This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.
TNMM724 – CIMRM 1650
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Palazzo Mattei di Giove
This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.
TNMM721 – CIMRM 534
Monumentum

Altar of Castlesteads
Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.
TNMM720 – CIMRM 872
De(o) Soli / (Invi)cto / M(ith)r(a)e M(ar)/cus Liciniu(s) / Ripanus praef(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit).