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The New Mithraeum Database of Bulgaria

Mithraic monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras from Bulgaria.

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Ghighen
Vermaseren noted in his Corpus that he had been informed of a fragmented relief of Mithras killing the bull in "the museum at Ghighen".
TNMM695 – CIMRM 2253
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Pleven
This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.
TNMM662 – CIMRM 2257
Monumentum

Autel of Straton from Kreta
Straton, son of Straton, consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.
TNMM640 – CIMRM 2260
Στράτω/ν Στράρω/νος άνέθη(κεν) / τὸ(ν) βωμὸν / Ἡλίῳ Μίθρᾳ
Monumentum

Altar of Tettius Plotus from Oescus
In the altar that Titus Tettius Plotus dedicated to the invincible God, he called himself pater sacrorum.
TNMM634 – CIMRM 2252
T(itus) Tettiu[s] / Plotu{u}[s] / vet(eranus) leg(ionis) II[II] / F(laviae) F(elix) p(ater) s(acrorum) d[ei] / Invicti [s(olvit)] / l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Tauroctony of Plovdiv
This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.
TNMM632 – CIMRM 2338
Monumentum

Inscription with Cautes and Cautopates of Steklen
An unusual feature of this very ancient relief is that Cautopates carries a cockerel upside down, while Cautes carries it right-side up.
TNMM510 – CIMRM 2268, 2269
Deo / Melichrisus / P. Caragoni / Philopalaestri
Monumentum

Tauroctony stele of Nicopolis ad Istrum
The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.
TNMM341 – CIMRM 2264, 2265
Ἀγαθῆι τύχηι. Ἡλίῳ | Μίθρᾳ | θεῷ | ἐπηκόῳ || Αὐρ(ήλιος) | Μᾶρκος | γναφεὺς | τὸ συήλιον | σὺν τῇ || ζωγραφίᾳ | κ…
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Sofia
TNMM56