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Monuments to Mithras

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

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Tauroctony of Santa Maria Capua Vetere
The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.
TNMM169 – CIMRM 181
Monumentum

Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj
The sculpture of Mithras carrying the bull includes an inscription on its base.
TNMM316 – CIMRM 1494, 1495
Transitu / C(aius) Caecina / Calpurnius / temp(lum) redemi(t) et restitu(it).
Monumentum

Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj
This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.
TNMM413 – CIMRM 1496, 1497
Invict(o) Mithrae / et Transitu dei / Theodorus p(ublici) p(ortorii) / scrut(ator) stat(ionis) Poet(ovionensis) / ex visu.
Mithraeum

Mithraeum II of Ptuj
Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.
TNMM187 – CIMRM 1509
Mithraeum

Mithraeum III of Ptuj
Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.
TNMM60 – CIMRM 1578
Mithraeum

Mithraeum V of Ptuj
Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.
TNMM565
Monumentum

Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj
Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.
TNMM564 – CIMRM 1589, 1590
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro (sa) salute /canaliclari / et actariorum /et codicarior(um) / et librariorum / leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) et XIII g(eminae) / Gallienarum.
Monumentum

Altar of Carrawburgh by Aulus Cluentius
One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.
TNMM529 – CIMRM 846
D(eo) in(victo) M(ithrae) s(acrum) / Aul(us) Cluentius / Habitus pra(e)f(ectus) / coh(ortis) I / Batavorum / domu Ulti/n(i)a Colon(ia) / Sept(imia) Aur(elia) L(arino) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(eri…
Mithraeum

Mitreo Barberini
The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.
TNMM14 – CIMRM 389
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Fellbach
This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.
TNMM563
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Künzing
The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.
TNMM357
Monumentum

Altar with inscription of Künzing
This fragmented monument bears an inscription of a certain veteran named Valerius Magio.
TNMM561
I(nvicto) M(ithrae)/V(alerius) Magio/vet(eranus) (h)on(esta) m(issione)/d(imissus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
Mithraeum

Mithréum de La Bâtie-Montsaléon
During the excavations of 1804-1805, a series of monuments dedicated to Mithras and a temple were discovered at ancient Mons Seleucus.
TNMM499
Monumentum

Coin of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka I
This gold coin depicts Kanishka I on one side and Mithras standing on the other side.
TNMM554 – CIMRM 1
MIOPO
Monumentum

Coin of Valerian and Sol
This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.
TNMM557 – CIMRM 277
Monumentum

Antiochus I shakes hands with Mithras
Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.
TNMM134 – CIMRM 30
Monumentum

Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol
The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.
TNMM129 – CIMRM 896, 897
Num[ini] . . . . V . . | deum Invictum | T Fur(ius) Iu[stus?] d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit).
Mithraeum

Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol
The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.
TNMM62 – CIMRM 895
Monumentum

Inscription of the Olympius for a Leo
The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.
TNMM448 – CIMRM 400
Constantio VIllI et Iuliano II con[s(ulibus)] / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) / et Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) [c(larissimus)] pater / tradiderunt leontica IIII idu…
Monumentum

Bronze medallion from Gordian III with tauroctony
The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.
TNMM274 – CIMRM 27
Τάρσου μητροπόλεως. Α(ύτονόυ) μ(ητρόπόλεως) Κ(ιλιχίας) γ(ράμματι) β(ουλής).