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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with sol

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

Your search sol gave 140 results.

 
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Naples

    The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

    TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175

    Omnipotenti Deo Mithrae Appius / Claudius Tarronius Dexter v(ir) c(larissimus) dicat.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of the Cortile del Belvedere

    The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

    TNMM363 – CIMRM 321

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Bologna

    The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.

    TNMM325 – CIMRM 693

  • Monumentum

    Intaglio with Tauroctony from Munich

    This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.

    TNMM550

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Ottaviano Zeno

    In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

    TNMM125 – CIMRM 335

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Arshawi-Kibar

    This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

    TNMM224 – CIMRM 71

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Capri

    It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

    TNMM715 – CIMRM 172

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.

    TNMM693 – CIMRM 1314

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Vratnitsa

    This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.

    TNMM701 – CIMRM 1893, 1894

    L(ucius) Antonius Menander Aphro/disieus invicto / aug(usto) v(otum) f(ecit).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief found between Porta Portese and St Pancrace

    Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

    TNMM671 – CIMRM 585