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Monuments to Mithras

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

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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, 3035
Monumentum

Inscription of Iulius Pyrrus
This inscription to Zeus Helios Mithras Serapis by a certain Ioulios Pyrros is now lost.
TNMM629, 286
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, 426
[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, 920
Monumentum

Silvanus of Skikda
The statue of Skikda has seven holes in his hair for fastening rays.
TNMM320 – CIMRM 126, 722
Monumentum

Relief of Silvanus
This 3rd century marble relief of Silvanus is the only sculpture found in Mitreo Aldobrandini.
TNMM627 – CIMRM 236, 451
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, 807
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, 3375
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, 579
Monumentum

Tauroctony medallion of Egypt
This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.
TNMM431 – CIMRM 105, 457
ZANDYS
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, 1013
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Andros
An inscription by a certain Aurelius Rufinus reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, but it has not yet been found.
TNMM625, 432
Monumentum

Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)
The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.
TNMM255 – CIMRM 1584, 910
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro sal(ute) d(omini) n(ostri) Gallieni p(ii) f(elicis) / invicti Aug(usti) Fl(avius) Aper v(ir) e(gregius) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Mithras and Tellus
This relief of Mithras slaying the bull is unique because of the representation of Tellus lying under the bull.
TNMM623 – CIMRM 598, 479
Monumentum

Altar by Aelius Secundinus of Novaria
The v in this small altar found in Novaria has been interpreted by some commentators as qualifying Mithras as victorious.
TNMM622 – CIMRM 704, 383
[S]acrum Soli / Mit[hr]ae numini / v... inviet(o) deo / [v]isu iussus / Aelius Secundinus.
Monumentum

Inscription of Valerianus Petalus
In this inscription, found in Angera in Lombardy, Mithras is referred to by the unicum 'adiutor'.
TNMM621 – CIMRM 717, 334
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / adiutor(i) / Valerian(us) / Petalus v(otum) [s(olvit)].
Monumentum

Altars of two Clarissimi in the Phrygianum of the Vatican
Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.
TNMM620 – CIMRM 513, 750
M(atri) d(eum) m(agnae) I(deae) / et Attidi meno/tyranno conser/vatoribus suis Cae/lius Hilarianus v(ir) c(larissimus) / duodecimbyr (sic!) / urbis Romae / p(ater) s(acrorum) et hieroceryx / i(nvicti)…
Monumentum

Colonne with inscription by workers of the pig market
The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.
TNMM619, 407
S[oli] i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / et sodalicio eius / actores de foro suario / quorum nomina / [[sequuntur]]…
Monumentum

Mercury of Groß-Gerau
The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.
TNMM618, 413
Mercurio / Quillenio A(ulus) / Ibliomarius / Placidus nego(otiator) / cas(tello) Mat(tiacorum) lanius / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
Mithraeum

Mithréum de Biesheim-Kunheim
The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.
TNMM285, 789