Monuments to Mithras

Lors de la construction de l’église Saint-Paul en 1911, un mithraeum a été mis au jour à Königshoffen, vicus gallo-romain situé aux abords du camp légionnaire de Strasbourg-Argentorate.

TNMM217 – CIMRM 1335

The lion-headed marble from Muti's gardens has a serpent entwined in four coils around his body.

TNMM296 – CIMRM 551

The inscription reports the restoration of the coloured painting of the main relief of the Mithraeum by a veteran of the Legio VIII Augusta.

TNMM253 – CIMRM 1361

The relief of naked Roman soldier, wearing a mantle and a Phrygian cap, has been related to the Mithras' cult.

TNMM216

These two reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates where found in the south corner of one of the Mithraea of Friedberg, Hesse.

TNMM593 – CIMRM 1055, 1056

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

TNMM549

The Mithras killing the bull sculpture from Sidon, currently Lebanon.

TNMM156 – CIMRM 76

One of the rooms in a sustantive masonry building in Hollytrees Meadow was considered to be a Mithreum, a theory that has now been discarded.

TNMM73 – CIMRM 829

In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.

TNMM438 – CIMRM 421

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

TNMM131 – CIMRM 415, 416

This relief of Mithras killing the sacred bull was found in 1908 near Klisa, in the surroundings of Salona, the ancient capital of Roman Dalmatia.

TNMM591 – CIMRM 1871

The altar that now stands in Split was dedicated to Invincible Mithras for the health of a dear friend.

TNMM396 – CIMRM 1873

According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.

TNMM37 – CIMRM 1481

The main cultic relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Fertorakos was carved into the rock face.

TNMM170 – CIMRM 1642

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Danaújváros was found broken into three parts in a tomb looted in antiquity.

TNMM411 – CIMRM 1838

This inscription to Mithras Invencible was dedicated by a certain Apronianus in 172 is currently lost.

TNMM590 – CIMRM 647

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

TNMM365

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

TNMM204 – CIMRM 1593, 1594

Mithras Petrogenitus from Saint-Aubin en France.

TNMM230 – CIMRM 894

Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.

TNMM197