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Monuments figurés relatifs aux Mystères de Mithra

Mithraic monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras, his cult and related subjects.
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  • Monumentum

    Altar of Inveresk with a griffin

    This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.

    TNMM460

    From United Kingdom

    Daeo (sic) / invic(to) My(thrae) / C. Cas(sius ?) / Fla(vianus ?).
  • Monumentum

    Mercury of Stockstadt

    The Stockstadt Mercury carries a purse and a small child around which a snake is coiled.

    TNMM418

    From Germany

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

    This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

    TNMM198 – CIMRM 1083

    From Germany

  • Monumentum

    Relief of Aion-Phanes

    The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

    TNMM327 – CIMRM 695, 696

    From Italy

    Euphrosy/n[e] et Felix. P(ecunia) p(osuit) / Felix pater.
  • Monumentum

    Aion from Villa Barberini

    This lion-headed marble was found on the ruins of the Alban Villa of Domitianus.

    TNMM276 – CIMRM 326

    From Italy

  • Monumentum

    Roman Marble Relief Panel with Birth of Mithras

    Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.

    TNMM248

  • Mithraeum

    Mithräum von Groß-Gerau

    In the Mithraeum of Gross Gerau, discovered in 1989, a statue of Mercury, a lion and an altar were found.

    TNMM617

    From Germany

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Merida consecrated by Marcus Valerius Secundus

    This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

    TNMM338 – CIMRM 793

    From Spain

    Ann(o) Col(oniae) CLXXX / aram genesis / Inuicti Mithrae / M(arcus) Val(erius) Secundus / fr(umentarius) Leg(ionis) VII Gem(inae) dono / ponendam merito curauit / G(aio) Accio Hedychro patre
  • Monumentum

    Altar by Marcus Aurelius Sabinus

    This altar to the god Sol invicto Mithra was erected by a legate during Maximin's reign in Lambaesis, Numidia.

    TNMM616 – CIMRM 134

    From Algeria

    Deo Sol(i) in/victo Mi/thrae / M. Aurel(ius) / M(arci) f(ilius) Sergi/s Carnu/nto Sabi/nus prae/fect(us) leg(ionis) / III aug(ustae) p(iae) v(indicis) / Maximi/nianae v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens)...
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    Mithraeum of Cirta

    An inscription mentioning a speleum decorated by Publilius Ceionius suggests the location of a mithraeum in Cirta, the capital of Numidia.

    TNMM615 – CIMRM 129

    Speleum cum [sig]/nis et omamen[tis] / Publilius Ceion[ius] / Caecina Albinu[s v(ir) c(larissimus)].