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Monuments to Mithras

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

New: Consult all cross-database references at The New Mithraeum.

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, 451
Monumentum

Cautopates from Jajce
Beheaded Cautopates in limestone found on the podium of the Jajce Mithraeum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
TNMM698 – CIMRM 1903, 447
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, 2126
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, 706
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Golubić
This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in Golubić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near a cementery.
TNMM696 – CIMRM 1910, 452
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, 309
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, 471
[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, 457
Monumentum

Luna in biga of Boulogne
This monument is too fragmentary to recod it definitely as a Mithras-monument.
TNMM690 – CIMRM 952, 363
Monumentum

Aion from Luxor
This statuette was bought by A. Wiedemann in Luxor in 1882 from a man from Kus.
TNMM688 – CIMRM 102, 365
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, 448
Monumentum

Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries
The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.
TNMM686 – CIMRM 87, 289
Monumentum

Inscription of Sahin
This mithraic inscription in greek was found in a place called Sahin in Phoenicia.
TNMM685 – CIMRM 72, 347
[Θε]ῷ ὑψίστῳ οὐρανίῳ ὑ[πάτῳ καὶ Ἡλίῳ ἀνικήτῳ?] / [Μί]θρᾳ ὁ βῶμπὸς ἐκτίσθ[η . . . ] / [ὀ]ρθῶς ἐν τῷ κφ’, �…
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Qasr Ibn Wardan
According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.
TNMM350 – CIMRM 73, 410
Monumentum

Graffito of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana
In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.
TNMM684 – CIMRM 218, 412
IIE M ULAS M﹡V BABENUS SMΛXS BECTON BINU XII PROCLUS BINU ﹡II ERMES DUX ﹡III FORTUNIU ADA NDA MAXIMUS BINU ﹡II.
Monumentum

Hermae of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana
A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.
TNMM683 – CIMRM 217, 431
Monumentum

Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt
Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.
TNMM681 – CIMRM 1102, 460
I(n) h(onorem) d(omus) d(iviuae) / d(eo) i(nvicto) Mithrae / Murius Victor / aedilis c(oloniae) T(aunensium) ex v[oto]. [Pos(uit) ded(it)] q(ue) / [d. n. Phi]l[ippo et] Ti/[tiano] co(n)s(ulibus).
Monumentum

Candelabrum of Doryphorus
This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.
TNMM682 – CIMRM 508, 453
Doryphorus pater.
Monumentum

Mithraic vignettes of Ptuj
These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.
TNMM680 – CIMRM 1510, 579
Monumentum

Mithraic vignettes of Besigheim
These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.
TNMM679 – CIMRM 1301, 706