Monuments to Mithras

Representation of a person lying prostrate on the ground between two other walking figures on the Mitreo of Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM736 – CIMRM 193

Minto has claimed that the time god Aion was painted on the corner of the north wall of the Mitreo de Santa Capua Vetere.

TNMM735 – CIMRM 185

A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.

TNMM347

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.

TNMM733 – CIMRM 768

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

TNMM732 – CIMRM 767

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

TNMM731 – CIMRM 35, 36

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.

TNMM730 – CIMRM 968, 969

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

TNMM728

This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.

TNMM727 – CIMRM 1022

The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.

TNMM352 – CIMRM 1018

The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.

TNMM378 – CIMRM 1020

This small monument without inscription was found in Bingem, Germany.

TNMM725 – CIMRM 1244

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

TNMM724 – CIMRM 1650

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.

TNMM721 – CIMRM 534

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

TNMM720 – CIMRM 872

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

TNMM719 – CIMRM 606

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

TNMM718 – CIMRM 507

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

TNMM132 – CIMRM 506

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

TNMM717 – CIMRM 479