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Monuments to Mithras

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

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Cautes of Sisak
This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.
TNMM708 – CIMRM 1473, 1474
Urbicus / Sisci/ano/rum.
Monumentum

Altar with Sol from Ptuj
This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.
TNMM707 – CIMRM 1591, 1592
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro salute / tesserarior(um) / et custod(um) ar/mor(um) leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) / et XIII gemin(a)e Gallienarum.
Monumentum

Base of Buda
This base was found in the 18th century and bears an inscription to the god Arimanius.
TNMM706 – CIMRM 1775
Monumentum

Cautes of Transylvania
There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.
TNMM705 – CIMRM 2185
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Becker’s collection
The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.
TNMM704 – CIMRM 13
Monumentum

Fragmented Mercury of Aquincum
Fragments of this limestone statue include the head and torso of Mercury, holding the caduceus in his left hand.
TNMM703 – CIMRM 1755
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Split
This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.
TNMM702 – CIMRM 1859
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Vratnitsa
This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.
TNMM701 – CIMRM 1893, 1894
L(ucius) Antonius Menander Aphro/disieus invicto / aug(usto) v(otum) f(ecit).
Monumentum

Altars of Jajce
Three small limestone altars were found in the Jajce Mithraeum, one of which bears the inscription ’Invicto’.
TNMM699 – CIMRM 1904
Invi[cto].
Monumentum

Larger altars and small finds from Jajce
Three larger altars and other finds from the Mithraeum of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
TNMM700 – CIMRM 1905
Monumentum

Cautopates from Jajce
Beheaded Cautopates in limestone found on the podium of the Jajce Mithraeum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
TNMM698 – CIMRM 1903
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Jajce
The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.
TNMM63 – CIMRM 1901
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Jajce
The relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Jajce Mithraeum is walled into the cult niche and surmounted by a roof.
TNMM697 – CIMRM 1902
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Golubić
This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in Golubić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near a cementery.
TNMM696 – CIMRM 1910, 1911
Aure/lius / Ma/ximus /Pant[a]die/[nus].
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Ghighen
Vermaseren noted in his Corpus that he had been informed of a fragmented relief of Mithras killing the bull in "the museum at Ghighen".
TNMM695 – CIMRM 2253
Monumentum

Mithras-inscription of Speyer
This monument with an inscription to the god Sol Mithras was found in front of the cathedral of Speyer during some sewer works.
TNMM692 – CIMRM 1312
[In] ho(norem) d(omus) d(ivinae) / [deo] Soli / [Mi]trh/[ae].
Monumentum

Petrogeny of Bingen
This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.
TNMM691 – CIMRM 1240
Monumentum

Luna in biga of Boulogne
This monument is too fragmentary to recod it definitely as a Mithras-monument.
TNMM690 – CIMRM 952
Monumentum

Aion from Luxor
This statuette was bought by A. Wiedemann in Luxor in 1882 from a man from Kus.
TNMM688 – CIMRM 102
Monumentum

Aion of Porsione
This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.
TNMM687 – CIMRM 611