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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with mithras

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

Your search mithras gave 420 results.

 
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Dragus

    The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.

    TNMM310 – CIMRM 1919

  • 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.
  • Monumentum

    Intaglio with Tauroctony from The Met

    This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

    TNMM769 – CIMRM 2361

    ABLANATHANALBA TUXEUI.
  • Monumentum

    Petrogeny of Florence

    The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

    TNMM744 – CIMRM 666

  • Monumentum

    Petrogeny with a sheaf of wheat of Cologne

    In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

    TNMM728

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Toronto

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

    TNMM719 – CIMRM 606

  • 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

    Painted tauroctony of Rome

    This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

    TNMM714 – CIMRM 337

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Ruše

    This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

    TNMM710 – CIMRM 1447, 1448

    M(arcus) Porcius / Verus / proc(urator) Aug(usti) / me / pos/uit.