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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with serpens

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

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Monumentum

Aion of Villa Albani
White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.
TNMM123 – CIMRM 545
Monumentum

Tauroctonia del Cortile del Belvedere
White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.
TNMM210 – CIMRM 546, 547
Soli invicto deo / Atimetus Aug(ustorum) n(ostrorum) ser(vus) act(uarius) praediorum Romaniarorum.
Monumentum

Tauroctony of the Loggia Scoperta
Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras's birth restored as Venus anaduomene.
TNMM209 – CIMRM 556, 625
Val(erius) Marinus pater sign(um) ǀ Invicti Mitrhe ex voto po(suit).
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 on altar of Ptuj
Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.
TNMM564 – CIMRM 1589, 1590
D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro (sa) salute /canaliclari / et actariorum /et codicarior(um) / et librariorum / leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) et XIII g(eminae) / Gallienarum.
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

Relief de Bourg-Saint-Andéol
The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.
TNMM129 – CIMRM 896, 897
Num[ini] . . . . V . . | deum Invictum | T Fur(ius) Iu[stus?] d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecit).
Monumentum

Aion of Mitreo Fagan
The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.
TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313
C. Valeri/us Heracles pat(er) / et C(aii) Valerii / Vitalis et Nico/mes sacerdo/tes s(ua) p(e)c(unia) p(o)s(ue)r(unt). / D(e)d(icatum) idi(bus) aug(ustis) im(peratore) / Com(odo) / VI et / Septi/miano…
Monumentum

Two-sided relief from Rückingen
This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.
TNMM552 – CIMRM 1137
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