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Monuments to Mithras

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

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  • Monumentum

    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).
 
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