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Monuments to Mithras

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

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  • Monumentum

    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…
  • Monumentum

    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).
 
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