Monuments to Mithras tagged with ‘fax’

Altar for Cautopates.

TNMM1385 – CIMRM 1505

The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

TNMM104 – CIMRM 268

Fresco showing a scene of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras in the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

TNMM234 – CIMRM 188

Relief possibly depicting Mithras-Men holding a torch and a a bust of Luna on a crescent.

TNMM1077 – CIMRM 541

White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.

TNMM995 – CIMRM 417

Two marble statues (H. 0.63; 0.60).

TNMM1373 – CIMRM 123, 124

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

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

TNMM522 – CIMRM 2122, 2123

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896

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

TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

These fragments of a monumental relief of Mithras killing the bull from Koenigshoffen were reassembled and are now on display at the Musée Archéologique de Strasbourg.

TNMM576 – CIMRM 1359, 1360

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

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

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

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

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

TNMM310 – CIMRM 1919

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

TNMM160 – CIMRM 81

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

The relief of Palazzo Colonna, Rome, depicts a lion-headed figure holding a burning torch in his outstretched hands.

TNMM317 – CIMRM 383

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.

TNMM200 – CIMRM 860