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Monuments to Mithras

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

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Mithraic altar from Venosa
This altar dedicated to Helios Mithras by a certain Sagaris was repurposed in the masonry of Palazzo Bagnoli, Venosa, Italy.
TNMM888 – CIMRM 171
Ἡλίῳ / Μήδρᾳ / ὑπὲρ σωτηρίας / Βρι[τ]λίου Πραι[λ]ίουντος Σχάρις οἰκο/νόμος.
Monumentum

CIMRM 256
Marble statuette of Cautopates, according to Giornale d’Italia 28, 3, 1860 found together with the preceding Nos.
TNMM921 – CIMRM 256
Monumentum

CIMRM 826
Marble fragment with an inscription (ILN 1954,636).
TNMM1259 – CIMRM 826
u . . . . / [Bri]tanniae/. . . . [vic]toriam/. . . . am.
Monumentum

CIMRM 878
White marble relief, found near Aix "a la Torse dans un enclos ayant appartenu à la famille de Colonia".
TNMM1293 – CIMRM 878
P. Tallius One/simus / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

CIMRM 992
Altar in limestone from the Jura, found "bei Verbreiterung der Moselbahn unweit der Uberflihrung des Weberbaches" near the Therms (1879).
TNMM1364 – CIMRM 992
Monumentum

Mithras birth from Petronell
Only parts of the knees of Mithras, emerging from the rock, have been preserved from this monument of Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria.
TNMM1375 – CIMRM 1716, 1717
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Vindilius?) Cupitus / sig(nifer) leg(ionis) XIIII g(eminae) A(ntoninianae) et / Vind(ilius?) Iulianus / voto) p(osuerunt) patre Paterno.
Monumentum

Tauroctony from Carnuntum
Relief of Mithras killing the bull with an inscription from a certain Aurelius Macer who dedicates it to Sol Invictus Mithras.
TNMM1383
D(eo) S(oli) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Aur(elius) Mac[er(?)] / v(otum) s(olvit) / [l(ibens) m(erito)].
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Mundelsheim
The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.
TNMM51
Monumentum

Altars of Sol and Luna from Mundelsheim
The altars of the gods of the Sun and Moon found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim wear openwork segments that could be lighten from behind.
TNMM386
Mithraeum

Mithréum d’Orbe-Boscéaz
The site of Orbe-Boscéaz, Switzerland, also known as Boscéay, is renowned for its mosaics and mithraic temple.
TNMM260
Monumentum

Lion-headed Aion from Sidon
The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.
TNMM157 – CIMRM 78, 79
Φλ. Γερόντιος, πατὴρ νόμιμος, ἀνεϑέμην τῷ φ̕ ἔτι.
Monumentum

Two-sided relief of Dieburg
The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.
TNMM231 – CIMRM 1247
[Side A:] D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Silves/trius / Silvi/nius et Silvestrius Pe[rpetus et A]urelius nepos / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) l(aeti) m(erito). / Perpetus fra/te[r] artis sutor(iae). …
Monumentum

Head of Mithras at Nemrud Dag
The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.
TNMM275 – CIMRM 29
Mithraeum

Mount Nemrut Dağı
Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
TNMM79 – CIMRM 28
Mithraeum

Mithräum von Dieburg
There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.
TNMM232 – CIMRM 1246
Mithraeum

Mithraeum VI of Aquincum
A sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.
TNMM760
Mithraeum

Mithraeum II of Aquincum in Victorinus’s house
This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.
TNMM84 – CIMRM 1750, 1751
Monumentum

Engraved column by Maximus of Dura Europos
A certain Maximus from the Legio IV Scythica engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.
TNMM759 – CIMRM 62
Nam[a] / Maximus / scen[i]co / leg(ionis) IIII Sc(ythicae).
Monumentum

Cautes of the mitreo di Santa Prisca
The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.
TNMM758 – CIMRM 477
Monumentum

Mithraic stele from Alba Iulia
Mithraic stele, from Alba Iulia, Romania, with inscription.
TNMM257 – CIMRM 1937
D(eo) S(oli) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro salute inc/o{t}lumitate M(arci) Aur(eli) / Timotei et Aur(eli) M/aximi votum nun/cupavit solvitque / Euthyces eorum lib(ertus) / retulit.