Monuments figurés relatifs aux Mystères de Mithra

The Mithraeum of Cabra is located in the Villa del Mitra, which owes its name to the discovery in 1951 of a Mithras tauroctonus in the remains of the Roman villa.

From Spain

This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

From Spain

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull by Ottaviano Zeno is lost, but two tablets of Cautes and Cautopates, which were part of the same ensemble, has been exposed at the Louvre.

CIMRM 335

From Italy

The Mithréum d'Angers contained numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps and a ceramic vessel engraved with a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

From France

This altar has been unusually dedicated to both gods Mithras and Mars at Mogontiacum, present-day Mainz.

From Germany

This is one of the few known Mithraic inscriptions dedicated by a member who attained the grade of Perses.

CIMRM 887

From France

The text mentions a certain Kamelios, described as immaculate miles.

CIMRM 59

From Syria

Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.

From Spain

The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.

From Spain

One of the rooms of the villa has been interpreted as a mithraeum, but we do not have enough evidence to confirm this.

From Spain

Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

From Spain

Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

CIMRM 772

From Spain

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

From Spain

The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.

CIMRM 457

From Italy

An unusual feature of this very ancient relief is that Cautopates carries a cockerel upside down, while Cautes carries it right-side up.

CIMRM 2268, 2269

This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.

CIMRM 362

From Italy

This is the earliest known sculpture of a Roman Mithraic tauroctony.

CIMRM 593, 594

From Italy

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

CIMRM 216

From Italy

These small monuments bear the inscriptions of two of the brothers involved in the Mithras cult at the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.

CIMRM 269, 270

From Italy

This altar was originally consecrated to Hercules and was rededicated to Mithras by Callinicus in the Mithraeum of the House of Diana.

CIMRM 219, 220

From Italy