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Monuments to Mithras

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

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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
Monumentum

Inscription of Sahin
This mithraic inscription in greek was found in a place called Sahin in Phoenicia.
TNMM685 – CIMRM 72
[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
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
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
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
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, 509
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
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
Monumentum

Mithras head of Arles
This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.
TNMM677 – CIMRM 881
Monumentum

Weapons from Les Bolards
A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.
TNMM678 – CIMRM 925
Monumentum

Altar of Bergamo
This altar to Deo Invicto was found during the excavation of the Monastero Delle Benedettine di Santa Grata in Bergamo, with a bronze calf’s head on top.
TNMM676 – CIMRM 710
Deo invicto / l(ibens) d(e) s(uo).
Monumentum

Altar of Pisignano
This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.
TNMM675 – CIMRM 692
Monumentum

Tauroctony on display in Boston
This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.
TNMM539 – CIMRM 607
Monumentum

Tauroctony in Copenhagen
This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.
TNMM674 – CIMRM 596
Monumentum

Tauroctony sculpture in the Sala dei Animali
This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.
TNMM208 – CIMRM 548
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Chrestos
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.
TNMM673 – CIMRM 554, 555
Χρῆστος πατὴρ καὶ Γαῦρος ἐποίησαν.
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of Villa Borghese
This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.
TNMM672 – CIMRM 586
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace
Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.
TNMM671 – CIMRM 585
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Villa Borghese
This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
TNMM669 – CIMRM 588