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Monuments to Mithras

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

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Inscription of the praeses Aurelius Hermodorus
This marble gives some details of the reconstruction of the Virunum Mithraeum.
TNMM455 – CIMRM 1431
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, 604
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, 967
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, 591
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
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
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, 2352
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, 128
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
[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
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, 1769
[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
Monumentum

Mosaic of the Mitreo di Felicissimo
The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.
TNMM166 – CIMRM 299
FELICISSIMVS / EX VOTO F[ecit]
Monumentum

Mithras-Sol Altar from the Carrawburgh
One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.
TNMM180 – CIMRM 847, 848
Deo ♣ invicto ♠ / Mithrae M(arcus) Sim/plicius Simplex pr(a)ef(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of Carnuntum
This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.
TNMM523
Monumentum

Cautopates of Sarmizegetusa with scorpion
The Cautopates with scorpion found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa includes an inscription of a certain slave known as Synethus.
TNMM521 – CIMRM 2120, 2121
Cautopati sa(crum) / Synethus adiu[t(or)] / tabul(arii) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Petrogeny of Sarmizegetusa
The rock of Mithra's birth in the Petrogenia of Sarmizegetusa is surrounded by a snake.
TNMM436 – CIMRM 2134
Monumentum

Altar of Mérida from Quintio
This altar, which has now disappeared, was dedicated by the slave Quintio for the health of a certain Coutius Lupus.
TNMM520 – CIMRM 794
Inuicto Deo / Quintio Flaui / Baetici Conim/brig(ensis) ser(uus) / pro sa(lute) Coutii Lupi
Monumentum

Altar to a Perses of S. Silvestro in Capite
This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.
TNMM517 – CIMRM 402
Datiano et Cereale cons(ulibus) / Nonius Victor Olympius v(ir) cl(arissimus) p(ater) p(atrum) [et] / Aur(elius) Victor Augentius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(ater) / tradiderunt Persica pri(die) non(as) apri…
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Altar of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis
The altar includes a slab with an inscription for the salvation of two emperors.
TNMM515 – CIMRM 273
Pr(o) sal(ute) Augg(ustorum duorum) / S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / [L. ?] Florius Hermadio(n) / sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit).