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Monuments to Mithras tagged with ‘chiton’

Monuments, inscriptions and artefacts related to Mithras and his cult tagged with ‘chiton’.

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    Tauroctony of Mauls

    The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

    TNMM476 – CIMRM 1400

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Osterburken

    Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

    TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

    D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].
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    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

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    Fresco Tauroctony of Mitreo di Marino

    The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.

    TNMM201

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    Tauroctony of Dragus

    The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.

    TNMM310 – CIMRM 1919

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief from Apulum

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.

    TNMM797 – CIMRM 1973

  • Monumentum

    Taurcotony of Secundinus

    This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.

    TNMM796 – CIMRM 1947, 1948

    ------] I(nvicto) M(ithrae) · SIGNVM / ------ Sec]VNDINVS · EX · VOTO · POS(uit).
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    Cautopates of Sidon

    Cautopates sculpture of Sidon features a snake near his left leg.

    TNMM160 – CIMRM 81

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony gemstone from Ploiești

    This gemstone depicting Mithras killing the bull, preserved in the Ploiești Museum, originated from Prahova County or south of the Danube area.

    TNMM794

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony on display at the Getty Museum

    This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

    TNMM538

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of the Collezione Torlonia

    This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

    TNMM793 – CIMRM 408, 409

    Soli invicto / L(ucius) Aur(elius) Severus / cum paremboli(s) / et [h]ypobasi / voto fecit. [Soli i]nvicto / Mithrae [f]ec(it) L(ucius) Aur(elius) Severus Pra[es(idente) L(ucio)] Domitio Mar[cel]li…
  • Monumentum

    Two-sided relief from Rückingen

    This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

    TNMM552 – CIMRM 1137

  • Monumentum

    Taurcotony of Nesce

    The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

    TNMM420 – CIMRM 650, 651

    Apronianus rei p(ublicae) ark(arius) sua pecunia fecit.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Ottaviano Zeno

    In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

    TNMM125 – CIMRM 335

  • Monumentum

    Cautopates de Bordeaux

    The Cautopates of Bordeaux stands as usual with his legs crossed and arms down.

    TNMM139

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Naples

    The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

    TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175

    Omnipotenti Deo Mithrae Appius / Claudius Tarronius Dexter v(ir) c(larissimus) dicat.
  • Monumentum

    Coin of Septimius Severus and god on horseback

    Coin of Istrus, Moesia Inferior, showing Caracalla on one side and a god on horseback (Mithras ?) on the other.

    TNMM518

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares

    Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

    TNMM524 – CIMRM 1697, 1698

    D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / fautori imperii sui / Iovii et Herculii / religiosissimi / Augusti et Caesares / sacrarium / restituerunt.
  • Monumentum

    Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus

    These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.

    TNMM553

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from Sisak

    This marble relief, found in Sisak, Croatia, shows Mithras killing the bull in a circle of corn ears, gods and some scenes from the Mithras myth.

    TNMM784 – CIMRM 1475

 
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