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Monuments to Mithras

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

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  • 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

  • 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

 
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