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Monuments to Mithras

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

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  • 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…
  • Monumentum

    Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini

    The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

    TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

  • Mithraeum

    London Mithraeum

    The Mithraeum of London, also known as the Walbrook Mithraeum, was contextualised and relocated to its original site in 2016.

    TNMM25 – CIMRM 814

  • Monumentum

    Inscription by Proficentius, Rome

    This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.

    TNMM437 – CIMRM 423

    Hic locus est felix sanctus piusque benignus / quem monuit Mithras mentemque dedit / Proficentio patri sacrorum / utque sibi spelaeum faceret dedicaretque / et celeri instansque operi reddit muneram /…
  • Monumentum

    Petrogeny from Aquileia

    This fragment of a sculpture depicting the birth of Mithras from a rock, intertwined with a chaotic mass of serpent coils, was discovered in Aquileia, Italy.

    TNMM804

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Gérman

    This very fine relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 2014 in Germán, near Sofia, Bulgaria, and is now housed in the Sofia History Museum.

    TNMM795

  • Monumentum

    Sabazios with Mithras from Bolsena

    This unusual bronze bust of Sabazios features multiple symbolic elements, with Mithras depicted in his characteristic pose of slaying the bull, positioned just below Sabazios’ chest.

    TNMM802 – CIMRM 659

  • Monumentum

    Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

    The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana ’by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra’.

    TNMM127 – CIMRM 7

 
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