Monuments to Mithras

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

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71, 485

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, 965

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.

TNMM730 – CIMRM 968, 652

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, 640

This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.

TNMM727 – CIMRM 1022, 359

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, 1082

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, 2197

This small monument without inscription was found in Bingem, Germany.

TNMM725 – CIMRM 1244, 387

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

TNMM724 – CIMRM 1650, 561

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, 443

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

TNMM720 – CIMRM 872, 453

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

TNMM719 – CIMRM 606, 687

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

TNMM718 – CIMRM 507, 561

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

TNMM132 – CIMRM 506, 722

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

TNMM717 – CIMRM 479, 738

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

TNMM716 – CIMRM 478, 598

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

TNMM715 – CIMRM 172, 491

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.

TNMM626 – CIMRM 276, 506

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

TNMM714 – CIMRM 337, 473

This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.

TNMM713 – CIMRM 336, 375