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Monuments to Mithras

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

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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.
Mithraeum

Mitreo della domus dei capitelli
Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.
TNMM757
Monumentum

Mosaics from Mitreo degli Animali
Several figures related to the Mysteries of Mithras are depicted on the mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Animals.
TNMM168 – CIMRM 279
Monumentum

Altar of Tihaljina
This altar, discovered in Grude, near Tihaljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bears an inscription by Pinnes, a soldier of the Cohors Prima Belgica.
TNMM754 – CIMRM 1889
D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) a[c Ge]/niis sac[r(orum)] / Augusto[r(um)] / Rus(---) Pin(nes) mi/les / co(hortis) prim(ae) / Bel(garum) immunis / libens merito / posuit.
Monumentum

Inscription of Tarragona
This fragment of the base of a statue from Tarragona, Spain, bears an inscription which appears to be dedicated to the invincible Mithras.
TNMM743 – CIMRM 806
[--- Invi]cto Mithra[e]….
Mithraeum

Mithräum I von Güglingen
Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).
TNMM38
Monumentum

Mithras with the bow
A statue of Mithras with a bow was found on the pit of the Mithraeum of Dieburg.
TNMM311 – CIMRM 1249
Monumentum

Incensiary vessel of Dieburg
The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.
TNMM409 – CIMRM 1269
Monumentum

Male figure with offerings from Dieburg
A standing half naked man makes offerings to an altar while holding a cornucopia in his other hand.
TNMM412 – CIMRM 1255, 1256
D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) // Priscinius Sedulius / Primulus fratres / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) l(aeti) m(erito).
Monumentum

Statue of a mother goddess with child
This unusual statue in Mithraic iconography of a mother nursing a child was found in the vestibule of the Mithraeum of Dieburg.
TNMM647 – CIMRM 1262
Monumentum

Altar of Hermadio from Tibiscum
This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.
TNMM579 – CIMRM 2153
S(oli) I(nvicto) N(umini) M(ithrae) / pro salute / P(ubli) Ael(i) Mari / Hermadio / act(or) Turran(i) / Dii v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Iron sword and crown of Güglingen
Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.
TNMM377