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Monuments to Mithras

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

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  • Monumentum

    Mithras carrying the bull

    Sculpture depicting Mithras carrying a young bull on his shoulders.

    TNMM158 – CIMRM 77, 684

  • Monumentum

    Bronze Venus of Sidon

    There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

    TNMM306 – CIMRM 86, 852

  • Monumentum

    Cautes of Sidon

    The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.

    TNMM159 – CIMRM 80, 697

  • Monumentum

    Altar of the Mitreo Menandro

    The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

    TNMM534 – CIMRM 225, 475

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

    Relief of Aion on globe

    The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

    TNMM322 – CIMRM 543, 756

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo Sacellum delle Tre Navate

    The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

    TNMM533, 545

  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Virunum

    A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

    TNMM401, 939

  • Monumentum

    Inscription of the praeses Aurelius Hermodorus

    This marble gives some details of the reconstruction of the Virunum Mithraeum.

    TNMM455 – CIMRM 1431, 748

    D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) templum vetusta(te) / conlabsum quot (sic) fuit / per annos amplius / L desertum, Aur(elius) / Hermodorus v(ir) p(erfectissimus) pr(aeses) pr(ovinciae) N(orici) / M(edi)t(err…
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

    The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

    TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 1079

    D(onum) deo invicto d(ederunt) / Marci Matti / Fortuna/tus / et Alexander / et Pardus / et Eficax / per Fl(avio) Alexandro patre.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Sarrebourg

    The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

    TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 1140

    In h(onorem) d(omus) d(ivinae) deo inv[ict]o Marceleus Marianus / d(e) / s(uo) p(osuit)
  • Monumentum

    Mithras petrogenitus from Villa Giustiniani

    Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

    TNMM124 – CIMRM 590, 868

    Nama / L(ucius) Fl(avius) Hermadion / hoc mihi libens / d(onum) d(edit).
  • Monumentum

    Fresco of a knight and a black figure from the Hawarte Mithraeum.

    This painting depicts an Iranian knight holding in a chain a black naked figure with two heads.

    TNMM223, 638

  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Caernarfon

    The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

    TNMM77 – CIMRM 2374, 1056

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Aigio

    The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

    TNMM361 – CIMRM 2351, 616

    Soli invic/to milites/ ..... uist/ .... esarcus
  • Monumentum

    Mithraic rock and vase of Rusicade

    Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.

    TNMM324 – CIMRM 127, 716

  • Monumentum

    Basin of Mitreo della Planta Pedis

    This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

    TNMM531 – CIMRM 275, 550

    [In]victo Mithrae d(onum) d(edit) M(arcus) Umbilius Criton sum Pyladen vil[ico].
  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

    TNMM17, 2296

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Symphorus and Marcus from Aquincum

    This sculpture of Mithras killing the sacred bull bears an inscription that mentions the donors.

    TNMM526 – CIMRM 1768, 711

    [Sy]mphorus et M(arcus).
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum I of Aquincum

    The Mithraeum of Aquincum I existed in the potter's quarter of the ancient city of Budapest.

    TNMM356 – CIMRM 1742, 510

  • Monumentum

    Mosaic of the Mitreo di Felicissimo

    The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

    TNMM166 – CIMRM 299, 1630

    FELICISSIMVS / EX VOTO F[ecit]
 
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