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Monuments to Mithras

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

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Key of Mithraeum III at Nida
The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.
TNMM406 – CIMRM 1115
Monumentum

Lápida mitráica de San Juan de la Isla
The monument of San Juan de la Isla (Asturias) devoted to Mithras was preserved in the portico of the main church until 1843.
TNMM196 – CIMRM 803
Ponit Inv/icto Deo / Au(gu)sto. Po/nit lebien/s Fronto / aram Invi/cto Deo Au/(gu)sto. F(ronto) Leveiu/s ponit, pr(a)e/sedente p[a]/[t]rem patr[um] / [c]um leon[ibus]/ M(onumentum) [h(oc)]
Monumentum

Altar to Mithras at the Walters Art Museum
This altar bears an inscription to the health of the emperor Commodus by a certain Marcus Aurelius, his father and two other fellows.
TNMM542 – CIMRM 510
Soli Invicto / Mithrae / pro salute Commod(i) / Antonini Aug(usti) domin(i) n(ostri) / M(arcus) Aurel(ius) Stertinius / Carpus una cum Carpo / proc(uratore) k(astrensi) patre et Her/mioneo et Balbino …
Monumentum

Altar with Inscription to Mithras of Rottenburg
This monument was erected by a certain Publius Aelius Vocco, a solider of the Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis stationed in Mainz.
TNMM562 – CIMRM 1308
Invicto / Mithrae / P. Ael(ius) Voc/co mil(es) l(egionis) XXII / p(rimigeniae) p(iae) f(idelis) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) / m(erito).
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Hawarti
The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.
TNMM221
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Neuenheim
The Tauroctony relief of Neuenheim, Heidelberg, includes several scenes from the deeds of Mithras and other gods.
TNMM205 – CIMRM 1283
Monumentum

Mithras riding a horse from Neuenheim
Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.
TNMM177 – CIMRM 1289
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Neuenheim
Only a small part of the Neuenheim Mithraeum has been excavated.
TNMM48 – CIMRM 1282
Monumentum

Mithras rock-born of Septeuil
A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.
TNMM288
Mithraeum

Mithréum de Septeuil
The Mithraeum of Septeuil, Yvelines, was accommodated at the 4th century in an oldest sanctuary of the source.
TNMM287
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from Angers Mithraeum
The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.
TNMM207
Monumentum

Aion of Bordeaux
[Por lo visto, no es un Aion y no hace parte del Mitreo de Bordeaux]
TNMM140
Monumentum

Aion altar of Bordeaux
The altar depicting a lion-headed figure from Bordeaux includes a sculpted ewer and a patera on the sides.
TNMM138
Mithraeum

Mithréum de Bordeaux
C’est en 1986, à l’occasion de la restructuration de l’ancien magasin Parunis, qu’une fouille de sauvetage archéologique fut réalisée cours Victor Hugo.
TNMM18
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Osterburken
The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.
TNMM70 – CIMRM 1291
Monumentum

Aion of Arles
The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.
TNMM148 – CIMRM 879
Monumentum

Cautes Borcovicus
The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.
TNMM130 – CIMRM 854
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Tienen
The temple contained hundreds of ceramic vessels and animal bones, which may indicated that a grand Mithraic feast was celebrated before its closing.
TNMM182
Monumentum

Antiochus I shakes hands with naked Apollo-Mithras-Helios
Stele representing Apollo-Mithras-Helios in a Hellenistic nude fashion, shaking hands with Antiochus I.
TNMM556
Monumentum

Bronze inscription from Aldobrandini
This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.
TNMM119 – CIMRM 234, 235
SEX POMPEIO SEX FIL / MAXIMO / SACERDOTI SOLIS IN / VICTI MT PATRI PATRVM / QQ CORP TREIECT TOGA / TENSIVM SACERDO / TES SOLIS INVICTI MT / OB AMOREM ET MERI /TA EIVS SEMPER HA / BET