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Monuments to Mithras

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

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Tauroctony of via di Borgo
This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.
TNMM649 – CIMRM 366, 367
Deo sancto I(nvicto) M(ithrae) sacrathis (sic) d(onum) p(osuerunt) Placidus Marcellinus leo antis{ti}tes et Guntha leo.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Aelius Maximus of Turda
This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.
TNMM668 – CIMRM 1920, 1921
Ael(ius) Maximus miles / leg(ionis) V Mac(edonicae) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) p(osuit).
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Aurelios Stephanos from Sibiu
This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.
TNMM667 – CIMRM 2002
Αὐρήλι(ο)ς Στέφανος θεῷ Μίθρᾳ / εὐχαριστήρι(ο)ν.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Alba Iulia with collared dog
This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.
TNMM664 – CIMRM 1972
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Cluj
Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.
TNMM280 – CIMRM 2025
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of Alba Iulia
The relief of Mithra slaying the bull from Apulum, Romania, has been missing until the scholar Csaba Szabó identified it in the diposit of the Arad Museum.
TNMM346 – CIMRM 1938
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Pleven
This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.
TNMM662 – CIMRM 2257
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Euhemerus from Alba Iulia
Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.
TNMM663 – CIMRM 1975, 1976
Deo invicto Mithr(a)e / Euhemerus ex voto / posuit.
Monumentum

Altar of Poreč
This stone altar found in Poreč was dedicated by two freedmen to the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.
TNMM660 – CIMRM 754
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro salute et / victoria s(acratissimorum) d(ominorum) n(ostrorum) / Philipporum Aug(ustorum) / et Otaciliae Severe Aug(ustae) / Charitinus I(ibertus) s(ub)proc(urat…
Monumentum

Triptic of Tróia
The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.
TNMM245 – CIMRM 798
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Santiponce
This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.
TNMM659 – CIMRM 769
Monumentum

Inscription of Valentinus Secundionis
This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.
TNMM658 – CIMRM 730
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et Soli soci/o sac(rum) Valen/tinus Se/cund[i]on[i]s / ob memor(iam) / patris sui / ex colleg(a) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Ostia found in 1939
This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.
TNMM657 – CIMRM 296, 297
Monumentum

Plaque of Meknès
One of the two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, found in Meknès, Morocco.
TNMM656 – CIMRM 161
Pro salute et incolumitate imp(eratoris) Caesaris / L(ucii) Aeli(i) Aurel(ii) Commodi Pii invicti feli/cis Herculis Romani imperioque / eius Aur(elius) Nectorega (centurio) vex(illariorum) Britt(onum)…
Monumentum

Altar of Meknès
Two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, have been found in Meknès, Morocco.
TNMM655 – CIMRM 160
I(nvicto) d(eo) M(ithrae) / Aur(elius) Nectore/ga (centurio) vex(illariorum) Brit(tonum) / Volubili / agentium / l(ibens) l(aetus) merito.
Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Palermo
These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.
TNMM654 – CIMRM 165, 166
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Palermo
The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.
TNMM150 – CIMRM 164
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Dormagen
The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.
TNMM264 – CIMRM 1012, 1013
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) imp(erio) C. Amandinius / Verus buc(inator) v(otum) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
Mithraeum

Mithraeum I of Carnuntum
According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular.
TNMM43 – CIMRM 1664
Mithraeum

Mithraeum II of Carnuntum
The second temple devoted to Mithras in Carnuntum is situated besides a Jupiter's temple.
TNMM190 – CIMRM 1681