Monuments: TNMdB

This unusual statue in Mithraic iconography of a mother nursing a child was found in the vestibule of the Mithraeum of Dieburg.

This marble statuette from Ostia depicts Cautopates lowering his torch beside a tapering rock associated with Mithras’ birth from stone.

Only parts of the knees of Mithras, emerging from the rock, have been preserved from this monument of Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria.

Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Rusicade, today Skikda, Algeria.

White marble statue of Cautopates with crossed legs, accompanied by an owl beside a tree trunk.

White marble statue of Cautopates found in Rome.

Lion-head god with traces of red paint found in Rome.

White marble statue of Mithras killing the sacred bull preserved in the Museo Nacional Romano.

The lion-headed figure from Rusicade, now Skikda, holds a key in both hands and features a pine cone beside his feet.

Marble statue of Cautes, found at Ostia. The head, one arm and the legs are missing. The figure wears a short tunic and raises the torch in the canonical upward gesture.

Sandstone petrogenesis from Petronell-Carnuntum (Lower Austria), depicting Mithras emerging from the rock, preserved from the knees upwards.

The Stockstadt Mercury carries a purse and a small child around which a snake is coiled.

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

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

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.

Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

This small golden figurine seems to represent the Mithraic god Aion, as usual surrounded by a serpent.

The Hekataion of Sidon, which depicts Hekate in her trimorphic form surrounded by three dancing girls, is the only example found to date in connection with the Mithraic cult.

White marble statue found near the Scala Santa in Rome depicting Mithras as bull-slayer, accompanied by the dog, serpent and scorpion, with the bull’s tail ending in ears of grain.

Marble statue from Intercisa representing a lion holding an indistinct animal beneath its forepaws. Found in a vineyard, the piece is now in the Hungarian National Museum.