This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Quaere

Monuments: TNMdB

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

Your selection in monuments gave 205 results.

Filter by
Search
Results per page
 
Monumentum

Tauroctonia del Cortile del Belvedere

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

 
Monumentum

Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj

This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj

Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Fellbach

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.

 
Monumentum

Intaglio with Mithras and Kabiros

This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

 
Monumentum

Intaglio of chalcedony at the BnF

This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

 
Monumentum

Intaglio of Mithras Tauroctonus at the Walters Art Museum

This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.

 
Monumentum

Bronze plaque of Mithras slaying the bull

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony on display in Princeton

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief exposed at the Hermitage Museum

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Sarrebourg

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

 
Monumentum

Mithras petrogenitus from Villa Giustiniani

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Aigio

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony relief of Carnuntum

This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Aquileia

The relief of the Mithraic tauroctony of Aquiliea is currently on display in Vienna.

 
Monumentum

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.

 
Monumentum

Petrogeny from Santo Stefano Rotondo

The sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from Santo Stefano Rotondo bears an inscription of Aurelius Bassinus, curator of the cult.

 
Monumentum

Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida

The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Macerata

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.

Back to Top