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The New Mithraeum Database tagged with spica

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

Your search spica gave 19 results.

 
  • Monumentum

    Two-sided relief of Dieburg

    The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

    TNMM231 – CIMRM 1247

    [Side A:] D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Silves/trius / Silvi/nius et Silvestrius Pe[rpetus et A]urelius nepos / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) l(aeti) m(erito). / Perpetus fra/te[r] artis sutor(iae). …
  • Monumentum

    Intaglio with Tauroctony and Lion with bee

    This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

    TNMM546 – CIMRM 2354

    CHMEA, KANTEV, KONTEV, KONTEV, KHPIΔEV, ΔAPVNKW, ΛVKVNΣ.
  • 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 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

    Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen

    This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.

    TNMM693 – CIMRM 1314

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of via di Borgo

    This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

    TNMM649 – CIMRM 366, 367

    Deo sancto I(nvicto) M(ithrae) sacrathis (sic) d(onum) p(osuerunt) Placidus Marcellinus leo antis{ti}tes et Guntha leo.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Dormagen

    The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

    TNMM264 – CIMRM 1012, 1013

    D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) imp(erio) C. Amandinius / Verus buc(inator) v(otum) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Osterburken

    Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken 'the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now'.

    TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

    D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief from Ladenburg

    The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

    TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

    This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

    TNMM198 – CIMRM 1083