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Monuments to Mithras

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

New: Consult all cross-database references at The New Mithraeum.

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Dunaújváros (Intercisa)
The Dunaújváros Mithraeum was discovered in 1973.
TNMM345, 487
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Slăveni
The Mithraeum of Slaveni was discovered in 1837 on the right bank of the river Olt, in Romanati district.
TNMM74, 2295
Monumentum

Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni
The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.
TNMM281, 573
Monumentum

Cautes from Newcastle
This limestone statue of Cautes is now exposed at Great North Museum of Newcastle.
TNMM251 – CIMRM 849, 391
Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates of Marquise
The two fellows of Mithras from Marquise, Boulogne-sur-Mer, are fully naked but for the cloak and the Phrygian cap.
TNMM299 – CIMRM 951, 496
Mithraeum

Mithraeum de Martigny
The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.
TNMM65, 1785
Monumentum

Relieve de arcilla del Templo de Hathra
TNMM173, 373
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Syracuse
The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.
TNMM263 – CIMRM 163, 620
Monumentum

Lion relief from Nemrut Dag
The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.
TNMM302 – CIMRM 31, 1732
Πυρόεις Ηρακλέους, στίλβων Απόλλωνος, Φαέθων Δίος
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Hermopolis
In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.
TNMM301 – CIMRM 91, 803
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Housesteads
The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.
TNMM309 – CIMRM 852, 1648
Monumentum

Aion from Nida
This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.
TNMM277, 673
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection
Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.
TNMM376, 1031
Mithraeum

Mitreo di Vulci
The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.
TNMM20, 1021
Mithraeum

Hatra Temple
The city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.
TNMM46, 1126
Mithraeum

Temple of Garni
After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.
TNMM100, 1681
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Nush-i Jan
The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.
TNMM348, 1227
Mithraeum

Mithra temple of Marāgheh
The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.
TNMM371, 1761
Monumentum

Mithras sacrificing the bull at Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Tauroctony in black marble on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.
TNMM225, 566
Monumentum

Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio (CIMRM 430)
This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.
TNMM256 – CIMRM 430, 522