Mithraic monuments including petrogenia

MONUMENTUM

This mithraic communion from Mérida shows three persons at table with other people standing besides, one of them with a bull's head on a plate.

Spain

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Mithras rock-born of Septeuil

A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.

France

MONUMENTUM

Mithras rock-born of Dobrosloveni

The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.

Romania

MONUMENTUM

Roman Marble Relief Panel with Birth of Mithras

Mithras raising from the rock with the torch and the dagger.

MONUMENTUM

Two-sided relief of Dieburg

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

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). Silvinus artis quadratariae Aureli[us ..... ]...

MONUMENTUM

Felsgeburt des Mithras

Mithras Petrogenitus, born from the rock, from the Mithraeum of Carnuntum III.

Austria

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Rock birth from St Aubin

Mithras Petrogenitus from Saint-Aubin en France.

France

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Mithras Petrogenitus of Alba Iulia

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

Romania

MONUMENTUM

Tauroctonia de la 'Loggia Scoperta'

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

MONUMENTUM

Mithras rock-born from Housesteads

A naked Mithras emerges from the cosmic egg, as usual carrying a torch and a dagger.

United Kingdom

Monuments including: petrogenia

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