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Monuments figurés relatifs aux Mystères de Mithra

Monuments, temples and other objects related to Mithras, his cult and related subjects.

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Inscription by Proficentius, Rome
This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.
CIMRM 423
From Italy
Hic locus est felix, sanctus, piusque benignus, Quem monuit Mithras mentemque dedit Proficentio patri sacrorum Utque sibi spelaeum faceret dedicaretque Et celeri instansque operi reddit munera...
Monumentum

Slab of S. Urban by Ursinus
Marble plaque with inscription by a certain Ursinus found in Virunum in 1838.
CIMRM 1443
From Austria
Deo invic/to Metras / Ursianus do/num posuet.
Monumentum

Altar from Mérida 'pro salute'
The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of Caius Iulius.
CIMRM 795
From Spain
Deo / Inuicto / pro salute / Cai Iuli / […]
Monumentum

Arula by Lucius Petreius of Cabrera de Mar
Small arula with mithraic inscription and dedication to Cautes from a garlic merchant.
From Spain
K(auti) d(eo) / L(ucius) Petre/ius Vic/tor ali/arius / d(eo) K(auti) M(ithrae) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Monumentum

Tauroctony on display in Boston
This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.
From Italy
Monumentum

First Tauroctony relief of Dura Europos
One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.
CIMRM 37, 38
From Syria
Ἔθφανει ἰστρατηγα
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Dura Europos
The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.
CIMRM 34
From Syria
Monumentum

Frescoes of 'Magis' from Dura Europos
Some scholars have speculated that the scrolls both figures hold in their hands represent Eastern doctrines brought to the Western world.
CIMRM 44
From Syria
Monumentum

Tauroctony on display in Princeton
This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.
CIMRM 605
From Italy
Monumentum

Tauroctony on displya at the Getty Museum
This fragmentary scupture of Mithras killing the bull belongs to the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
Monumentum

Tauroctony on display in Virginia
Rich relief on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art showing Mithras sacrificing the bull accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates.
Monumentum

Tauroctony exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum
In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.
From Italy
Mithraeum

Niasar Cave
The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.
From Iran
Monumentum

Head of Minerva from London
This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.
From United Kingdom
Monumentum

Mithras head of Walbrook
The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.
CIMRM 815
From United Kingdom
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Inveresk
The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.
From United Kingdom
Mithraeum

Mithraeum of London
The London Mithraeum also known as Walbrook Mithraeum has been contextualized and relocated in its original emplacement in 2016.
CIMRM 814
From United Kingdom
Mithraeum

Villa del Mitreo (Cabra)
The Villa del Mitreo or Casa del Mitra takes its name from the discovery of a Mithras Tauroctonus in the vicinity.
From Spain
Monumentum

Kneeling man from Santa Maria Capua Vetere
This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.
CIMRM 191
From Italy
Monumentum

A man is initiated into the Mysteries of Mithras
This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.
CIMRM 187
From Italy