Monuments to Mithras

The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.

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The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

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In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.

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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.

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

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Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

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The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

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

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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.

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The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.

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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.

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Tauroctony in black marble on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.

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This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

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The lion-headed statue of Hedderneheim is a reconstruction from fragments of two different sculptures.

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The two companions of Mithras carry a torch and a shepherd's staff at the third Mithraeum in Frankfurt-Heddernheim, formerly Nida.

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The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.

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A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn during the sacred feast.

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The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.

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The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

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The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

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