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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 St. Egyden
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.
TNMM339, 737
Mithraeum

Mitreo del Campidoglio «lo perso»
This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.
TNMM24 – CIMRM 414, 668
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Sisak
The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.
TNMM366 – CIMRM 1472, 603
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from Santo Stefano Rotondo
The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome
TNMM165, 699
Monumentum

Serapis head of Walbrook
The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.
TNMM121 – CIMRM 818, 974
Monumentum

Heracles captures the Golden Hind of Artemis
Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.
TNMM326, 663
Monumentum

Aion of Florence
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, 804
Monumentum

Mithras rock-birth fresco of Hawarte
In one of Hawarte's frescoes, the rock birth of Mithras is preceded by Zeus and followed by the young Persian god suspended from a cypress tree.
TNMM343, 822
Monumentum

Mithraic arcosolium of Catacombe de Marcellino e Pietro
A dinner scene with Sabina from the Catacombe dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro, near Rome, may have been commissioned by a follower of Mithras.
TNMM342, 1021
SABINA MISCE
Monumentum

Fresco de Luna en el Mitreo de Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Luna riding a biga in the Mithraeum of Santa Capua Vetere.
TNMM193 – CIMRM 184, 682
Monumentum

Altar of Sol of Via del Mare
This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.
TNMM329 – CIMRM 432, 437
Invicto / Soli / Felicissimus et / Philocurius aed(em) / d(onum) d(edit)
Monumentum

Mithras riding the bull
Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.
TNMM155 – CIMRM 2186, 617
Monumentum

Mithras killing the Bull from L'Origine de tous les cultes
Engraving with cosmological and symbolic mithraic elements.
TNMM211, 571
Monumentum

Grabado con escenas rituales, entre ellas, una Tauroctonia mitráica
TNMM103, 268
Monumentum

Duperac
TNMM147, 308
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Leonardo Agostini book
Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.
TNMM228, 507
Monumentum

Mithras Tauroctony and other figures from Palæographia Britannica
Palæographia Britannica: or, discourses on antiquities that relate to the history of Britain. Number III.
TNMM247, 484
Monumentum

Four mithraic engravings from Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis Historia
The folio depicts three tauroctonies and a Mithras Triumphantes standing on a bull with the globe in one hand and the dagger in the other.
TNMM267, 614
Monumentum

Imprint of a gem with Mithras killing the bull
Glass paste imprint depicting the Tauroctony surrounded by symbolic figures.
TNMM226, 599
Monumentum

Gemme with Mithras killing the bull
Imprint on glass of a Tauroctony exposed at Winckelmann Museum.
TNMM227, 477