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Monuments to Mithras tagged with ‘petrogenia’

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

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Feast from Mérida
This scene of a feast from Mérida shows three persons at a table with other people standing beside them, one holding a bull’s head on a plate.
TNMM300 – CIMRM 782
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Tauroctony of Absalmos
The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.
TNMM128
ἐκ τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπὶ ̕Αβσάλμου.
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Petrogeny with hand on head from Nida
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
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Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini
The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.
TNMM167 – CIMRM 390
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Petrogeny from Aquileia
This fragment of a sculpture depicting the birth of Mithras from a rock, intertwined with a chaotic mass of serpent coils, was discovered in Aquileia, Italy.
TNMM804
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Mithraic vase of Mühltal
The Mühltal Mithraic crater was discovered among the artefacts of a mithraeum found in Pfaffenhoffen am Inn, Bavaria.
TNMM393
Deo invicto Mitr[a]e Ma[rt- or -tern]inus.
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Tauroctony of Strasbourg
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
[In h(onorem)] d(omus) d(ivinae) d(eo) i(nvicto) M[ithrae] / ... us M.P.D ... / ... us typu[m] ... / ... solo v ...
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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
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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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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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Mithras rock-born from Housesteads
A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.
TNMM200 – CIMRM 860
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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.
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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.
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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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Mithras birth from Petronell
Only parts of the knees of Mithras, emerging from the rock, have been preserved from this monument of Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria.
TNMM1375 – CIMRM 1716, 1717
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Vindilius?) Cupitus / sig(nifer) leg(ionis) XIIII g(eminae) A(ntoninianae) et / Vind(ilius?) Iulianus / voto) p(osuerunt) patre Paterno.
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Two-sided relief of Dieburg
The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.
TNMM231 – CIMRM 1247
[Side A:] D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Silves/trius / Silvi/nius et Silvestrius Pe[rpetus et A]urelius nepos / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) l(aeti) m(erito). / Perpetus fra/te[r] artis sutor(iae). …
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Petrogeny of Florence
The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.
TNMM744 – CIMRM 666
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Petrogeny with a sheaf of wheat of Cologne
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
Monumentum

Petrogeny of Bingen
This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.
TNMM691 – CIMRM 1240
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Tauroctony of Euhemerus from Alba Iulia
Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.
TNMM663 – CIMRM 1975, 1976
Deo invicto Mithr(a)e / Euhemerus ex voto / posuit.