Monuments to Mithras

Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

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The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

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The Mithraeum of Saara, Syria, has been identified through the deciphering of the remains of the iconographic programme on its arch.

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Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

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Marble cippus with inscription.

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Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

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This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

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The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

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There is no solid evidences of the finding of a Mithraic temple in Duhok, Iraq.

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The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.

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Fresco of Mithras found in an arched niche above the right bench of the Baths of Caracalla’s Mithraeum in Rome.

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The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

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This marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found at Porto d’Anzio in 1699 and now lost, is known from a engraving by del Torre.

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In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.

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Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.

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Fresco depicting an initiation scene from the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere.

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Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.

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Fragments of a marble relief of Sol, which probably served as a fenster.

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Partial relief of a Giant with snake-feet found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca.

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White marble statue of Mithras killing the sacred bull preserved in the Museo Nacional Romano.

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