Monuments to Mithras

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

TNMM1035 – CIMRM 483

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

TNMM997 – CIMRM 419

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

TNMM969 – CIMRM 374

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

White marble statue of Cautopates found in Rome.

TNMM962 – CIMRM 358

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

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

Two marble statues (H. 0.63; 0.60).

TNMM1373 – CIMRM 123, 124

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

TNMM860 – CIMRM 122

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

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

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

TNMM811 – CIMRM 8

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

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

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

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

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

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

TNMM522 – CIMRM 2122, 2123

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

TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896

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

TNMM602