Monuments to Mithras

A gold coin depicting a bearded god with a crescent facing another god with a nimbus and a radiate crown, identified as Mithras by Vermaseren.

TNMM807 – CIMRM 3

This fresco, found in the Santa Capua Vetere Mithraeum, depicts what seems to be an initiate falling forward because someone is pressing down on his shoulders.

TNMM899 – CIMRM 195

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.

TNMM805 – CIMRM 1906

The existence of a mithraeum in the "tana del lupo", a natural cave in the castle of Angera, has been assumed since the 19th century, following the discovery of two mithraic inscriptions in the town.

TNMM82 – CIMRM 716

This sculpture of Mithras being born from a rock is unique in the position of the hands, one on his head, the other on the rock.

TNMM761 – CIMRM 1111

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

TNMM522 – CIMRM 2122, 2123

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

TNMM602

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

TNMM25 – CIMRM 814

This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.

TNMM437 – CIMRM 423

This fragment of a sculpture depicting the birth of Mithras from a rock, intertwined with a chaotic mass of serpent coils, was discovered in Aquileia, Italy.

TNMM804

This very fine relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 2014 in Germán, near Sofia, Bulgaria, and is now housed in the Sofia History Museum.

TNMM795

This unusual bronze bust of Sabazios features multiple symbolic elements, with Mithras depicted in his characteristic pose of slaying the bull, positioned just below Sabazios’ chest.

TNMM802 – CIMRM 659

The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana ’by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra’.

TNMM127 – CIMRM 7

The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.

TNMM803

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

TNMM21 – CIMRM 653

The Mithraeum was inserted into the basement of the basilica-theater by the 3rd century.

TNMM75

"The remaining figure on this monument, Herakles, was previously misidentified as Apollo on this remarkable black basalt tablet from Samsat, known in Roman times as Samosata.

TNMM801 – CIMRM 33

This monumental head of Antionchus I of Commagene is in Nemrut Dağı together with other representations of the Greco-Iranian king.

TNMM110 – CIMRM 29