Monuments to Mithras

Sculpture depicting Mithras carrying a young bull on his shoulders.

TNMM158 – CIMRM 77, 684

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

TNMM306 – CIMRM 86, 852

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

TNMM159 – CIMRM 80, 697

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

TNMM534 – CIMRM 225, 475

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

TNMM322 – CIMRM 543, 756

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

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

TNMM401, 939

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

TNMM455 – CIMRM 1431, 748

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

TNMM308 – CIMRM 603, 1079

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

TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 1140

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

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

TNMM223, 638

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

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

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.

TNMM324 – CIMRM 127, 716

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

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

TNMM17, 2296

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

TNMM526 – CIMRM 1768, 711

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

TNMM356 – CIMRM 1742, 510

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

TNMM166 – CIMRM 299, 1630