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Monuments to Mithras

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

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Tauroctony of Ulpius Linus from Apulum
This relief of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated by the bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina, Marcus Ulpius Linus.
TNMM636 – CIMRM 1955
[-?-] M. Ulp(ius) Linus imag(inifer) l(egionis) XIII G(eminae).
Monumentum

Altar of Hostilius from Skelani
This damaged monument of a certain Hostilius from Malvesiatium, now Skelani, bears an inscription apparently to Mithras transitus.
TNMM637 – CIMRM 1900
Tran[situi ?] / dei M[ithr(ae)] / Host[ilius(?)] / [.]oni[---]
Monumentum

Inscription to Mithras and Silvanus from Ljubljana
A certain Blastia or Blastianus made a dedication to Mithras and Silvanus on an altar in Emona, Pannonia.
TNMM635 – CIMRM 1463
D(eo) i(invicto) M(ithrae) / Silvano Augusto / sac(rum). Blastia / C(-?-) E(-?-) B(-?-) [---].
Monumentum

Altar of Tettius Plotus from Oescus
In the altar that Titus Tettius Plotus dedicated to the invincible God, he called himself pater sacrorum.
TNMM634 – CIMRM 2252
T(itus) Tettiu[s] / Plotu{u}[s] / vet(eranus) leg(ionis) II[II] / F(laviae) F(elix) p(ater) s(acrorum) d[ei] / Invicti [s(olvit)] / l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Inscription on a leonteum of Umbria
This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.
TNMM483
Leonteum cum signo et cetero cultu exornatum / ex permissu sanctissimi ordinis ex pec(unia) sua / a solo fecerunt leones, consummati ab Egnatio Re/parato sacerdote legit(imo) et collatore, T(itus) Lep…
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Dormagen
Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.
TNMM91
Deo Soli i(nvicto) M(ithrae) p(ro) s(alute) i(mperatoris) Suran l(ibertus) dupl(icarius) ale Noricorum ci(vis) Trax v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Fragmented tauroctony of Dormagen
This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.
TNMM633 – CIMRM 1014, 1015
Deo Soli I(nvicto) M(ithrae) p(ro) s(alute) Th(?)urat(?)r(?)[al]is Didil[ae f(ilius)] / dup[l(arius)] al(a)e Noricorum ci[vis T(h)rax v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito)]
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Plovdiv
This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.
TNMM632 – CIMRM 2338
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of Sidon
The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.
TNMM142 – CIMRM 75
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Sidon
The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.
TNMM11 – CIMRM 74
Monumentum

Inscription of Iulius Pyrrus
This inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras Serapis by a certain Ioulios Pyrros is now lost.
TNMM629
Διὶ Ἡλίῳ Μίθρᾳ Σέραπι Ἰούλιος Πύρρος εὐξάμενος ἀν(έθηκεν).
Monumentum

Inscription of Aurelius Mithres
This monument, found in the Domus Flavia in Rome, bears an inscription by a certain Aurelius Mithres.
TNMM630
[Aurel]ius / Mithres / Aug(usti) l(ibertus) strator / Serapi d(onum) d(edit).
Monumentum

Mosaic of Silvanus from Ostia
This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.
TNMM491 – CIMRM 252
Monumentum

Silvanus of Skikda
The statue of Skikda has seven holes in his hair for fastening rays.
TNMM320 – CIMRM 126
Monumentum

Relief of Silvanus
This 3rd century marble relief of Silvanus is the only sculpture found in Mitreo Aldobrandini.
TNMM627 – CIMRM 236
Mithraeum

Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale
A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.
TNMM97 – CIMRM 250, 251
Soli invict(o) Mit(hrae) d(onum) d(edit) L. Agrius Calendio.
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Močići
The Mithraeum of Mocici was situated in a grotto at one hour's walk fomr the ancient Epidaurum.
TNMM58 – CIMRM 1882
Monumentum

Tauroctony medallion of Transylvania
This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.
TNMM430 – CIMRM 2187
Monumentum

Tauroctony medallion of Egypt
This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.
TNMM431 – CIMRM 105
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Monumentum

Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch
Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.
TNMM272 – CIMRM 11, 12