Monuments to Mithras tagged with ‘fax’

Fresco du Mithraeum de Hawarte, Syria, depicts Mithras' victory over the Sun.

TNMM222

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras's birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

TNMM209 – CIMRM 556, 625

The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

TNMM169 – CIMRM 181

This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

TNMM279

This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.

TNMM543 – CIMRM 2367

This fragmentary relief shows Cautopates bordered by three of the six zodiacal signs with which He is associated: Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio.

TNMM545

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

TNMM120 – CIMRM 810, 811

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

TNMM341 – CIMRM 2264, 2265

Rich relief on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art showing Mithras sacrificing the bull accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates.

TNMM540

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

TNMM161 – CIMRM 82

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.

TNMM162 – CIMRM 83

The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.

TNMM159 – CIMRM 80

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 967

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

TNMM124 – CIMRM 590, 591

The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

TNMM166 – CIMRM 299

This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.

TNMM523

The rock of Mithra's birth in the Petrogenia of Sarmizegetusa is surrounded by a snake.

TNMM436 – CIMRM 2134

The relief of the Mithraic tauroctony of Aquiliea is currently on display in Vienna.

TNMM154 – CIMRM 736

The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.

TNMM186 – CIMRM 1492, 1493

This plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.

TNMM399 – CIMRM 1206, 1207