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Monuments to Mithras

Monuments, inscriptions and artefacts related to Mithras and his cult.

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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
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
SABINA MISCE
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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
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, 433
Invicto / Soli / Felicissimus et / Philocurius aed(em) / d(onum) d(edit)
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Mithras riding the bull
Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.
TNMM155 – CIMRM 2186
Monumentum

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

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

Duperac
TNMM147
Monumentum

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

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

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

Head of Sol / Helios intarsio from Sant Prisca
The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.
TNMM385
Monumentum

Re-used Neolithic axe-head inscribed with a Tauroctony
According to Christopher A. Faraone, the axe-head from Argos belong to a category of thunderstones reused as amulets.
TNMM266
βακαζιχυχ παπαφειρις
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Ceremonial sword of Riegel
The Mithraic sword found in the Riegel Mithraeum may have been used as a prop during rituals.
TNMM395
Monumentum

Castor-vase of St Albans
The St Albans mithraic vase depicts fragments of three figures identified by Vermaseren as Hercules, Mercury and Mithras as an archer.
TNMM337 – CIMRM 828
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Mithras tauroctonus and taurophorus vessel from Lanuvium
The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.
TNMM368 – CIMRM 207
Monumentum

Aion of Memphis
This statue of the god lion-head was found in Memphis, Egypt.
TNMM323 – CIMRM 94
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Aion of Oxyrhynchus
According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.
TNMM271 – CIMRM 103