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Monuments to Mithras

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

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  • Monumentum

    Plaque of Milan by Ulbius Gaianus

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

    TNMM530 – CIMRM 709, 713

    Invicto / patrio / Ulb(ius) Gaianus / praef(ectus) vehic(ulorum).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctonia de Walbrook

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

    TNMM120 – CIMRM 810, 1238

    Ulpius Silvanus / factis Arausione / emeritus leg(ionis) II aug(ustae) / votum solvit.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony stele of Nicopolis ad Istrum

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

    TNMM341 – CIMRM 2264, 525

    Ἀγαθῆι τύχηι. Ἡλίῳ | Μίθρᾳ | θεῷ | ἐπηκόῳ || Αὐρ(ήλιος) | Μᾶρκος | γναφεὺς | τὸ συήλιον | σὺν τῇ || ζωγραφίᾳ | κ…
  • Monumentum

    Dionysus group marble of London

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

    TNMM195 – CIMRM 822, 776

    Hominibus bagis bitam.
  • Monumentum

    Slab of S. Urban by Ursinus

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

    TNMM532 – CIMRM 1443, 606

    Deo invic/to Metras / Ursianus do/num posuet.
  • Monumentum

    Arula by Lucius Petreius of Cabrera de Mar

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

    TNMM471, 516

    K(auti) d(eo) / L(ucius) Petre/ius Vic/tor ali/arius / d(eo) K(auti) M(ithrae) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Frescoes of 'Magis' from Dura Europos

    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

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony on display in Princeton

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

    TNMM282 – CIMRM 605, 445

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum

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

    TNMM336, 1512

  • Monumentum

    Head of Minerva from London

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

    TNMM351, 829

  • Monumentum

    Mithras head of Walbrook

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

    TNMM122 – CIMRM 815, 924

  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Inveresk

    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

  • Monumentum

    Kneeling man from Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    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

  • Monumentum

    A man is initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras

    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

  • Mithraeum

    Mithréum de Mackwiller

    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

  • Monumentum

    Head of Mithras of Mackwiller

    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

  • Mithraeum

    Sabazeo

    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

    Fructus / suis in/pendis / consum/mavit
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro

    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

    Deo Invicto Mithrae / Diocles ob honorem / C. Lucreti Menandri / Patris / D(ono) D(edit) D(edicavit).
  • Monumentum

    Cautes with an axe

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

    TNMM161 – CIMRM 82, 655

  • Monumentum

    Second Cautes of Sidon holding an axe

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

    TNMM162 – CIMRM 83, 603

 
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