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TNMM 898 CIMRM 194 The mystagogus, dressed in a white tunica with red stripes, stands with one foot on the calfs of the kneeling myste, who holds his hands folded under his chin. Another person, ...
TNMM 1023 CIMRM 459 Fresco in an arched niche (H. 1.80 Br. 1.10) above the right bench. Mithras, dressed in purple tunic with long sleeves and anaxyrides, wears on his head the Phrygian cap, of which ...
Cross-database references to monuments, inscriptions and other artefacts related to the Cult of Mithras.
This altar was dedicated by a certain Marcus Aurelius Decimus to Sol Mithras and other gods in Diana, Numibia, present Argelia. Iovi optimo / maximo luno/ni reginae Min/ervae sanctae / Soli Mithrae / ...
TNMM 762 In 1996, while cleaning the walls of the so-called Gothic Hall of the Convent of the Saints Quattro Coronati, Andreina Draghi and her team discovered an impressive cycle of medieval frescoes.
Let’s take the question of the image. The idea of the Tauroctony is clever. The image of a deity killing a bull is not new. It can be found in the coinage of Augustus for the conquest of Armenia.
On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste dominé par le découpage administratif des « Roman provinces ...
TNMM 717 CIMRM 479 On the main side of the niche, there certainly was a representation in stucco of Mithras, slaying the bull. Parts of the flying cloak and the frout part of the jumping dog are ...
TNMM 707 CIMRM 1591 White marble altar (H. 1.02 Br. 0.54 D. 0.35) found near 5. Inv. No. 295. On its r. side naked Sol standing on a protruding stone base. His head is surrounded by twelve rays; in ...
TNMM 679 CIMRM 1301 Two fragments of a relief in sandstone (H. 0.28 Br. 1.92 and 0.98 D. 0.21). They were walled in in a house in the market-square at Besigheim; then they were transported to ...
TNMM 683 CIMRM 217 In the base of the niche two hermae had been walled in. One of these represents a bearded Bacchus, crowned with vine-tendrils and with vittae on his shoulders; the other figure ...
TNMM 670 CIMRM 587 White marble statue (H. 1.25 Br. 1.33). At first in Rome, Villa Borghese, afterwards in the gardens of Fontainebleau, nowadays Paris, Louvre (cf. Inv. manuscript Louvre, No. 991).