Monuments to Mithras

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

TNMM238 – CIMRM 1138, 1130

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

TNMM408 – CIMRM 1119, 1696

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.

TNMM407 – CIMRM 1118, 932

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

TNMM291, 1243

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

TNMM66, 744

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

TNMM405, 439

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

TNMM404, 572

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

TNMM213 – CIMRM 1991, 829

The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.

TNMM229, 791

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

TNMM328 – CIMRM 592, 2204

The archeologists have found three fragments of the Tauroctony of Lucciana, which includes Cautes and Cautopates.

TNMM220, 431

In the Mithraeum of S. Capua Veteres, Cautes stands between two laurel trees.

TNMM254 – CIMRM 182, 752

The lion sculpture found near the entrance of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards is unique in its genre.

TNMM374 – CIMRM 921, 700

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

TNMM258, 566

The Mithraeum of Szony has the form of a grotto and the entrance is on the west side.

TNMM355 – CIMRM 1723, 437

Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

TNMM334 – CIMRM 1727, 577

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

TNMM151 – CIMRM 641, 1155

The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.

TNMM364, 623

The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.

TNMM360, 762

In Aquincum petrogenia, Mithras holds the usual dagger and torch as he emerges from the rock.

TNMM178 – CIMRM 1758, 607