Monuments to Mithras

This monument dedicated to 'Invicto Patrio' was found in Milan in 1869.

TNMM530 – CIMRM 709, 713

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

TNMM120 – CIMRM 810, 1238

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

TNMM341 – CIMRM 2264, 525

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

TNMM195 – CIMRM 822, 776

Marble plaque with inscription by a certain Ursinus found in Virunum in 1838.

TNMM532 – CIMRM 1443, 606

Small arula with mithraic inscription and dedication to Cautes from a garlic merchant.

TNMM471, 516

Some scholars have speculated that the scrolls both figures hold in their hands represent Eastern doctrines brought to the Western world.

TNMM372 – CIMRM 44, 1555

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.

TNMM282 – CIMRM 605, 445

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

TNMM336, 1512

This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.

TNMM351, 829

The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.

TNMM122 – CIMRM 815, 924

The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

TNMM331, 2687

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.

TNMM333 – CIMRM 191, 640

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

TNMM292 – CIMRM 187, 1067

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

TNMM68, 897

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

TNMM117 – CIMRM 1332, 745

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

TNMM10 – CIMRM 300, 589

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

TNMM6 – CIMRM 224, 746

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

TNMM161 – CIMRM 82, 655

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.

TNMM162 – CIMRM 83, 603