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Monuments to Mithras

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

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Tauroctony of Ottaviano Zeno
In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.
TNMM125 – CIMRM 335
Monumentum

Altar by Hector Corneliorum of Mérida
This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.
TNMM586
... Invict[o Mithrae] / Hector Cornelior[um] / ex visu.
Monumentum

Altar of Aquileia to the brave god Mithras
This altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.
TNMM497 – CIMRM 741
Deo f(orti) i(nvicto) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P. Aelius / Mercur(ialis) / Q. Tessig/nius Maxi/mia(nus) patr(es) / pros(esedente) T(ito) Aur(elio) / Victore v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).
Monumentum

Cautopates de Bordeaux
The Cautopates of Bordeaux stands as usual with his legs crossed and arms down.
TNMM139
Monumentum

Altar by Caius Aemilius Superaius of Merida
Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.
TNMM426 – CIMRM 796
Deo / Invicto / C(aius) Camilius / Superat(us) / a(nimo) l(ibens) p(osuit).
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Tauroctony of Naples
The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.
TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175
Omnipotenti Deo Mithrae Appius / Claudius Tarronius Dexter v(ir) c(larissimus) dicat.
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Naples
The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.
TNMM219
Monumentum

Altar of Chrestion from Alba Iulia
In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.
TNMM666 – CIMRM 1945
Invicto / Mythir/ae Chr/estion / v(otum) s(olvit).
Monumentum

Altar of Sextus Syntrophus
This altar to Invictus Mythra (sic) was found in 1867 in ancient Maros Portum, now Sighișoara, Romania.
TNMM787 – CIMRM 1939
Invict[o] / Mythra[e] / Sex(tus) Syntr/ofus v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens).
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Mithra’s statue in Boztepe Hill
This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.
TNMM611 – CIMRM 14
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Altar of Merida consecrated by Marcus Valerius Secundus
This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.
TNMM338 – CIMRM 793
Ann(o) Col(oniae) CLXXX / aram genesis / Inuicti Mithrae / M(arcus) Val(erius) Secundus / fr(umentarius) Leg(ionis) VII Gem(inae) dono / ponendam merito curauit / G(aio) Accio Hedychro patre.
Monumentum

Altar from the Mitreo sotto la Basilica di San Lorenzo
This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
TNMM439 – CIMRM 422
Aebutius Restituti/anus qui et Proficen/tius antistes dei / Solis invicti Mithrae/ aram / d(onum) d(edit).
Monumentum

Inscription of Mitreo Aldobrandini by Sextus
This inscription found in the Mithraeum Aldobrandini informs us of certain restorations carried out in the temple during a second phase of development.
TNMM568 – CIMRM 233
Deum vetusta religione / in velo formatum et umore obnubi/latum marmoreum cum / throno omnibusq(ue) ornamentis / a solo omni impendio suo fecit / Sex(tus) Pompeius Maximus pater / q(uod) s(upra) s(cr…
Monumentum

Altar to Semele from Cologne
This sandstone altar found in Cologne bears an inscription to the goddess Semele and her sisters.
TNMM729 – CIMRM 1027
Deae Semelae et / sororibus eiius(!) / deabus ob honorem / sacri matratus / Reginia Paterna / mater nata et / facta aram po/suit / sub sacerdotal(i) / Seranio Catullo / patre.
Monumentum

Inscription of Cimber and Exsocho from Cologne
This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.
TNMM726 – CIMRM 1021
Have / Cimber es(sedarius) et / Pietas Ensocho / essed(ario) sodali / [b]ene merenti / [pos]uit. Vale. {H}Ave / Cimber es(sedarius) et / Pietas Exsocho / essed(ario) sodali / [be]ne merenti / [pos]…
Monumentum

Column of Dioscorus from Alba Iulia
This is one of the at least three inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marcus to Mithras Invictus found in Alba Iulia, Romania.
TNMM69
Invicto / Mythrae / Diosco/rus Marci / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
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Inscription of Dioscorus
One of the three known inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marci, found in Alba Iulia, Romania.
TNMM786
Invicto / Mythrae / Diosco/rus Marci / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
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Altar of Fructus and Myro
This marble monument was dedicated in Rome by the slave Fructus and his son Myro.
TNMM463 – CIMRM 518
Orienti / Fructus Ponti (servus) / cum Myrone [f(ilio)] / sub M. Aemilio / Chrysantho / mag(istro) anni primi.
Monumentum

Altar of Lucretius Mnester and Aemilius Philetus
This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.
TNMM785 – CIMRM 517
Deo / invicto / Mithrae / C(aius) Lucretius Mnester / M(arcus) Aemilius Philetus / summag(istri) anni primi / M(arcus) Aemili Chrysanti / d(e) s(uo) d(onum) d(ederunt).
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Altar of Aemilius Chrysanthus to the Invincible Sol
Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.
TNMM479 – CIMRM 519
Soli / invicto / M. Aemilius / M(arcorum duorum) l(ibertus) Chrysanthus / mag(ister) anni primi et / M. Limbricius Polides / dec(urio) et sodalicio eius / d(e) (suo) d(onum) d(ederunt).