Monuments to Mithras

The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.

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According to Christopher A. Faraone, the axe-head from Argos belong to a category of thunderstones reused as amulets.

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The Mithraic sword found in the Riegel Mithraeum may have been used as a prop during rituals.

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The St Albans mithraic vase depicts fragments of three figures identified by Vermaseren as Hercules, Mercury and Mithras as an archer.

TNMM337 – CIMRM 828, 468

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, 541

This statue of the god lion-head was found in Memphis, Egypt.

TNMM323 – CIMRM 94, 488

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, 706

Fragmentary marble statue of Mithras Tauroctonos from Córdoba.

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The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.

TNMM384 – CIMRM 354, 611

In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.

TNMM389 – CIMRM 88, 495

The second tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze seems to have be made by the same sculptor.

TNMM390 – CIMRM 89, 421

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

TNMM383 – CIMRM 584, 631

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

TNMM380 – CIMRM 352, 518

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

TNMM382 – CIMRM 350, 641

The relief of Mithras being born from the rock of the Esquiline shows the young god naked, as usual, with a torch and a dagger in his hands.

TNMM381 – CIMRM 353, 756

At about a mile's distance from the village of Mit-Rahine near Memphis a Mithraeum has been discovered, which itself has not yet been described.

TNMM44 – CIMRM 91, 744

García y Bellido proposed the existence of a mithraeum in a narrow, elongated room where the Troia mithraic relief was found.

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The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

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Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.

TNMM192 – CIMRM 1683, 683

This Mithraic temple, now disappeared, is known thanks to the numerous remains recorded since 1594 in the 'Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma'.

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