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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with epigraphia

Mithraic monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras and tagged with epigraphia.

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Monumentum

Main Tauroctony relief from Dura Europos
The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.
TNMM298 – CIMRM 40, 41
Θεοῦ (sic) Μίθραν ἐπόησεν Ζηνόβιος ὁ καὶ Εἰαειβᾶς Ἰαριβωλέους / στρατεγὸς τοξοτῶν ἔτους δευτέρου πυ̕.
He made (this image) of the god Mithra, Zenobios, who is also Iahiba, son of Iarhiboles, commander (strategos) of the archers, two years after the year 480.
CIL III 7726
Monumentum

Altar of Inveresk with a griffin
This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.
TNMM460
Daeo (sic) / invic(to) My(thrae) / C. Cas(sius ?) / Fla(vianus ?).
Au dieu invicible Mythra, Caius Cas(sius ?) / Fla(vianus ?).
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
Euphrosy/n[e] et Felix. P(ecunia) p(osuit) / Felix pater.
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
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
In the year 180 of the Colony, Marcus Valerius Secundus, frumentarius of the Legion VII Gemina, took care of placing the altar of the birth of the Invictus Mithras, as a due offering, being pater Gaius Accius Hedychrus
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
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) m(erito…
To the invincible Sol god Mithras, Marcus Aurelius Sabinus, son of Marcus, enrolled in the Sergia tribe, (originally from) Carnuntum, prefect of the pious and vengeful legion III Augustus, [[devoted to Maximin]], has willingly and justly fulfilled his vow.
CIL VIII 2675
Mithraeum

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)].
Grote with statues and decorations, [by] Publilius Ceionius, Caecina Albinus, the most distinguished man.
Monumentum

Scratched words of Kamerios
'Hail to Kamerios the Pater' can be read on one of the walls of the mithraeum at Dura Europos.
TNMM614 – CIMRM 67
Patri / vita / Ka/merio.
Long live Pater Kamerio.
Monumentum

Graffiti to Kamerios from Dura Europos Mithraeum
The text mentions a certain Kamerios, described as immaculate miles.
TNMM467 – CIMRM 59
Νάμα Καμ/ερίω στρα/τιώτη / άκερίω.
Hommage a Kamerios, miles immaculé.
Monumentum

Frescoes from the tomb of Aelius Magnus and Aelia Arisuth in Oea
The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.
TNMM575 – CIMRM 113, 114
D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) / Aelia Arisuth / vixit annus / sexaginta plus minus. // Quae lea iacet.
Sacred to the gods of the dead. Aelia Arisuth lived sixty years, more or less. She lies here.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of La Bâtie-Montsaléon
This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.
TNMM500 – CIMRM 898, 899
[Deo Soli in]victo M. Iulius Maternia/[n]us ex voto.
CIL XII 1535