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TNMM 805 CIMRM 1906 Marble relief (H. 0.21 Br. 0.26 D. 0.025), found at Miline near Jajce. At first in the collection of Major Holzhausen, then in the Fr. Cumont collection in Rome; now Belgian ...
Pueri Superbi have a fourteen word fraternity creed which they crow out for their 1st degree initiation. Written by Gavin McInnes in 2016, the fourteen words of this declaration are “I’m a proud ...
TNMM 785 CIMRM 517 Ara marmorea in domo quadam quae est a dextra vici Iudaeorum in platea vulgo di Branco paulo post palatium Cardinalis di Bologna. Deo / invicto / Mithrae / C (aius) Lucretius ...
Inscription, found in the Forum. Invicto d[eo] Mithrae d[ed(it)?] P. Numidi[us] / Decen[s]. CIL VIII 18042; MMM II No. 528. Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum ...
TNMM 775 CIMRM 140 Inscription on an altar, found at Ain-Zana. lovi optimo / maximo luno/ni reginae Min/ervae sanctae / Soli Mithrae / Herculi Mar/ti Mercurio / genio loci di/is deabusque / omnibus ...
TNMM 774 Roman, Imperial period, c. 3rd century AD. An enticing marble relief depicting Mithras killing a sacred bull. Dressed in a tunic, Mithras is depicted in the traditional manner, kneeling over ...
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 730 CIMRM 968 Two reliefs in sandstone (H. 0.93-0.96 Br. 0.45 D. 0.18-0.15). Both reliefs are broken in fragments and badly damaged. Two torchbearers in Eastern attire and cross-legged.
TNMM 714 CIMRM 337 Wall-painting, discovered in the Casa di Tito "22 genare 1668 vicine il Colosseo" (Holk., II, 36). In the beginning of the 18th century Topham made a number of aquarels, which were ...
References Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae Epigraphic Database Heidelberg. Fragments of altars from Gimmeldingen in EDH.
TNMM 680 CIMRM 1510 Fragments of the greater marble cult-relief. The relief represented Mithras as a bull-killer, as small remnants of Mithras’ flying cloak and a fragment (inv. No. 145) of his ...