Monuments to Mithras

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

TNMM213 – CIMRM 1991

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

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

TNMM328 – CIMRM 592

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

TNMM220

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

TNMM254 – CIMRM 182

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

TNMM374 – CIMRM 921

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

TNMM258

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

TNMM355 – CIMRM 1723

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

TNMM334 – CIMRM 1727

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

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

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.

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

TNMM178 – CIMRM 1758

The 'Mithraic cave' in the Gradische/Gradišče massif near St. Egidio contained vessels decorated with snakes and the remains of chicken bones and other animals that were consumed during Mithraic ceremonies.

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This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.

TNMM24 – CIMRM 414

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.

TNMM366 – CIMRM 1472

The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

TNMM165

The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.

TNMM121 – CIMRM 818

Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.

TNMM326

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

TNMM330 – CIMRM 665