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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with chiton

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

Your search chiton gave 214 results.

 
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Santa Maria Capua Vetere

    The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

    TNMM169 – CIMRM 181

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief of Sidon

    The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

    TNMM142 – CIMRM 75

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

    TNMM365

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Fellbach

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.

    TNMM563

  • Monumentum

    Intaglio with Mithras and Kabiros

    This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

    TNMM551 – CIMRM 2366

  • Monumentum

    Mithras carrying the bull

    Sculpture depicting Mithras carrying a young bull on his shoulders.

    TNMM158 – CIMRM 77

  • Monumentum

    Cautes of Sidon

    The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.

    TNMM159 – CIMRM 80

  • Monumentum

    Major fresco of the Mitreo Barberini

    The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras's myth.

    TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

  • 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 marble from Mitreo Fagan

    This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

    TNMM106 – CIMRM 310, 311

    Sig(num) imdeprehensivilis dei G(aius) Valerius Heracles sacerdos s(ua) p(ecunia) p(osuit). L(ucius) Sextius Karus et.