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Monuments to Mithras

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

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  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 483

    Continuation of the frescoes depicting an initiation into the Mithras cult, where two attendants present a repast to Mithras and Sol.

    TNMM1035 – CIMRM 483

  • Monumentum

    Two figures relief from Via Zanardelli

    Marble relief, probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli.

    TNMM997 – CIMRM 419

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from Viale Latino

    Partial marble statue of Mithras as a bullkiller found near Viale Latino, about 200 meters from Porta San Giovanni.

    TNMM969 – CIMRM 374

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from Salita delle Tre Pile

    White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.

    TNMM995 – CIMRM 417

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 358

    White marble statue of Cautopates found in Rome.

    TNMM962 – CIMRM 358

  • Monumentum

    Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

    This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

    TNMM303 – CIMRM 988

  • Mithraeum

    CIMRM 464

    On the Aventine, between the Eastern side of S. Saba’s and the Via Salvator, there is a Roman building, which probably was used as a Mithraeum in the end of the 4th century.

    TNMM1027 – CIMRM 464

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 123 124

    Two marble statues (H. 0.63; 0.60).

    TNMM1373 – CIMRM 123, 124

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 122

    Fragment of a white marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Rusicade, today Skikda, Algeria.

    TNMM860 – CIMRM 122

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 48

    Around the niche of the Dura Europos Mithraeum fragments of a series of small paintings set in a semicircular band of panels were found.

    TNMM826 – CIMRM 48

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 42

    Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

    TNMM823 – CIMRM 42

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 8

    Inscription from Hamadan where the ’great king’ Artaxerxes mentions Ahuramazda, Anahita, and Mithra as guardians.

    TNMM811 – CIMRM 8

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 3

    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

  • Monumentum

    CIMRM 195

    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

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Mile, Jajce

    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

  • Mithraeum

    Mitreo di Angera

    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

  • Monumentum

    Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida

    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

  • Monumentum

    Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa

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

    TNMM522 – CIMRM 2122, 2123

    V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Two-sided relief from Konjic

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

    TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896

    Deo Soli inv[ict]o Meter[ae].
  • Monumentum

    The Acosolium of the Mysteries in the Hypogeum of Vibia

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

    TNMM602

    Dis pater Aeracura // Fata divina // Mercurius / nuntius // Vibia Alcestis // Abreptio Vibi(a)es(!) et discensio // Septe(m) pii sacerdotes // Vincentius // Bonorum iudicio iudicati // Vibia //s quoib…
 
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