Catalogue of monuments and images of Mithras
Anyone who searches online for images of Mithras will find an ever-changing treasure-trove of high-resolution colour images and photographs. Often these are better than anything in the literature. But the images are usually taken by people who have no idea which monument it is, and give the reader no clue as to where more information might be found. Likewise researchers may not be able to find an image of a find, even though one is actually available, because it is incorrectly labelled. Sometimes images of unpublished material appear, perhaps in a news story, only to disappear again a year or two later.
The purpose of this page is to solve this problem. Researchers looking for images of monuments can quickly find them. Likewise someone looking at some image online can skim through the thumbnails here, identify which monument it is, and then click through to details and reference literature. For this reason more than one image is sometimes given, linked to the same data page. Images are held locally, because offsite images tend to disappear.
There is a separate page with a gallery of line-drawings from Vermaseren's "Mithras: the secret god", because these appear very widely online and indeed in the literature, but often unreferenced.
Information is currently held about the following images and inscriptions:
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CIMRM 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 - Coins of Mithra, Bactria / India. (Not Mithras)
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CIMRM 7, 8, 9 - Three Old Persian Inscriptions - Persia. (Not Mithras)
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CIMRM 10 - Mithraeum. Charax (=Ai-Todor), Crimea.
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CIMRM 11 - Terracotta plaque, Panticapaeum, Crimea.
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CIMRM 12 - Terracotta plaque. Panticapaeum, Crimea.
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CIMRM 13 - Fragment of tauroctony, "South Russia".
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CIMRM 14 - Literary reference to now vanished statue. Trapezos, Turkey.
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CIMRM 27 - Bronze aes. Tarsus, Cilicia, ca.240 A.D.
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CIMRM 27bis - Inscribed altar. Anazarbus, Cilicia.
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CIMRM 28 - General view of Nemrud Dag, Asia Minor. (Not Mithras)
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CIMRM 29 - Colossal head of Mithra. Nemrud Dag, Asia Minor. (Not Mithras)
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CIMRM 30 - Antiochus of Commagene and Mithra. Nemrud Dag, Asia Minor. (Not Mithras)
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CIMRM 31 - Lion / Horoscope of Antiochus. Nemrud Dag, Asia Minor. (Not Mithras)
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CIMRM 32 - Inscriptions on throne-backs, Nemrud Dag (Not Mithras)
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CIMRM 33 - Basalt slab of Antiochus of Commagene, Samosata, Syria. (Not Mithras)
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CIMRM 34 - Mithraeum. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 35 - Three altars. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 36 - Small finds, lamps, bones. Dura Europos, Syria
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CIMRM 37, 38, 39 - Lower tauroctony. Dura Europos, Syria
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CIMRM 40-41 - Upper tauroctony. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 42 - Frescos around tauroctony. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 43 - Stars in the reveal of the niche. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 44 - Sitting figures on either side of the arch. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 45-46 - Large fresco of Mithras and dadophores. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 47 - Several frescos of heads. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 48 - Fragmentary small panels around niche. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 49 - Mithras with Sol. South bench. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 49 - Mithras with Sol. South bench. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 50 - Fragments of fresco of green leaves and trees. South bench, Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 51 - Fragments of figure dressed like Mithras. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 52 - Mithras the hunter. Fresco. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 53 - Painted inscription of Antonius Valentinus. Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 54 - Graffito from Dura Europos, Syria.
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CIMRM 71 - Rectangular relief. Arsha-Wa-Qibar, Syria
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CIMRM 72 - Inscription. Sahin, Syria.
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CIMRM 73 - Mithraeum at Qasr ibn Wardan? (Seriane?), Syria
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CIMRM 74 - The Mithraeum at Sidon.
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CIMRM 75 - Tauroctony in Parian marble, Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 76 - Tauroctony statuette, Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 77 - Mithras carrying the bull statuette. Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 78-79 - Lion-headed statuette. Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 80 - Cautes statuette. Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 81 - Cautopates statuette. Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 82 - Cautes statuette with axe. Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 83 - Cautes statuette with axe. Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 84-85 - Hecate statuette. Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 86 - Two statuettes of Venus, one bronze , one marble. Sidon. In the Louvre.
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CIMRM 87 - Research note by Vermaseren on the Sidon Mithraeum.
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CIMRM 88 - Tauroctony. Si`, Syria
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CIMRM 89 - Tauroctony and inscription. Sî`, Syria.
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CIMRM 89 - Smashed Tauroctony. Damascus, Syria.
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CIMRM 90 - Fragment: head of Mithras. Aleppo, Syria
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CIMRM 91 - Hermopolis tauroctony, Egypt.
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Additional tauroctony - Hermopolis, Egypt. Now in Berlin.
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CIMRM 92 - Memphis tauroctony, Egypt.
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CIMRM 93 - Memphis tauroctony, Egypt.
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CIMRM 94 - Lion-headed statue. Memphis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 95 - Cautes. Memphis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 96 - Fragment of torchbearer. Memphis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 97 - Torchbearer statuette. Memphis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 98 - Statuette of torchbearer. Memphis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 99 - Statuette of standing person. Memphis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 100 - Lion statuette. Memphis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 101 - Two female statuettes. Memphis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 102 - Lion-headed statuette. Apollinopolis, Egypt.
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CIMRM 103 - Lion-headed god. Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.
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CIMRM 103 - Lion-headed god. Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.
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CIMRM 104 - Head with phyrgian cap. Alexandria, Egypt.
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CIMRM 105 - Fragment of round tauroctony from Egypt.
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CIMRM 113-115 - Tomb of Aelia Arisuth. Tripoli, Libya.
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CIMRM 162 - Mithraeum (?). Tiddis, Algeria.
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CIMRM 162 - Inscription. Tiddis, Algeria.
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CIMRM 162 - Bull's head. Tiddis, Algeria.
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CIMRM 162 - Winged phallus. Tiddis, Algeria.
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CIMRM 164 - Framework Tauroctony. Palermo, Sicily.
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CIMRM 165 - Cautes. Palermo, Sicily.
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CIMRM 166 - Cautopates. Palermo, Sicily.
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CIMRM 172 - Tauroctony from Capri. Naples, Italy.
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CIMRM 174 - Tauroctony of Appius Claudius Terronius Dexter. Pausilypana, Naples, Italy
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CIMRM 180 - Mithraeum. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
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CIMRM 181 - Fresco of tauroctony. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
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CIMRM 182 - Fresco of Cautes, altar, trees. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
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CIMRM 183 - Fresco of Cautopates. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 184 - Fresco of Luna. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 185 - Unknown - Aion? S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 186 - Amor and Psyche. S. Maria Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
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CIMRM 187 - Initiation ceremony 1. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 188 - Initiation ceremony 2. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 189 - Damaged red figure. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 190 - Standing figure. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 191 - Initiation ceremony 3. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 192 - Two people. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 193 - Initiation ceremony 5. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 194 - Initiation ceremony 4. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 195 - Initiation scene. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 196 - Two damaged scenes. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 197 - Two heads only. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 198 - Small finds and coins from sanctuary. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 199 - Small finds and coins from antechamber. S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy.
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CIMRM 207 - Red-ware plate. Lanuvium / Lavinium / Cività Lavinia, Italy.
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CIMRM 216 - Casa di Diana Mithraeum. Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 216 - Cult niche. Casa di Diana Mithraeum. Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 217 - Two herms. Casa di Diana Mithraeum, Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 218 - Graffito with names. Ostia, Italy
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CIMRM 219-220 - Marble altar. Casa di Diana Mithraeum, Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 221-222 - Fragment of architrave with Arimanius inscription. Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 229 - The Mithraeum at the "Baths of Mithras" in Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 229 - The Mithraeum at the "Baths of Mithras" in Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 230 - Statue of tauroctony. Ostia Museum, Italy.
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CIMRM 230 - Stolen duplicate to Ostia statue of tauroctony. Giustiniani collection, Italy.
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CIMRM 234 - Bronze tablet with head of Mithras. British Museum. Possibly from Aldobrandini Mithraeum, Ostia.
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CIMRM 239 - Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (sette sfere). Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 239 - Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (sette sfere). Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 240 - Dagger and seven spheres. Sette Sfere. Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 241 - Mosaics on bench fronts. Sette Sfere. Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 243 - Mosaics of Cautes and Cautopates. Sette Sfere. Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 243 - Mosaics of Cautes and Cautopates. Sette Sfere. Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 245, 246, 247, 248, 249 - Tauroctony and inscriptions. Seven Spheres. Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 254-255 - Cautes and Cautopates. Regio 1, Ostia.
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CIMRM 268 - Painted fresco. "Mitreo delle pareti dipinte", Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 272 - Mithraeum of the "Planta Pedis". Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 273 - Marble slab with inscription. Mithraeum of the "Planta Pedis", Ostia, Italy.
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CIMRM 274 - Two side-pieces of a tauroctony. Mithraeum of the "Planta Pedis", Ostia, Italy.
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