General:
Franz Cumont, The Mysteries of Mithras -- It should be clear from my Mithraism pages that this book is obsolete. Nonetheless, it's a classic, which gave birth to the field of Mithraic studies, and has some great pictures, so it's worth looking at.
Mithras Liturgy - A fourth century magical text that may (or may not) preserve some Mithraic ritual. There is certainly some Mithraic imagery, but that could have come from outside.
Mithras: literary references - Handy collection of the mentions of Mithras by ancient authors. There's also a photo of a very nice tauroctony, in which you can see that parts of it were originally colored (as were all those beautifully luminous Greek and Roman statues; ancient Rome and Athens were probably quite tacky), with Mithras' face in gold.
Menschen in Dorf Grinario - Among the artifacts on this site is a tauroctony.
The Roman Cult of Mithras - Massive site; large number of images and what claims to be ever reference to Mithras and Mithraism in the classical texts.
David Ulansey's Website
Altars:
Carrawburgh
Carrawburgh, close up
Mundelsheim, with Sol and Luna
San Clemente. With tauroctony.
Sibiu Museum. Mithras riding the bull.
Cautes and Cautopates
Guglingen - With a Petragenetrix
Neuenheimer
Ostia
Cautes and Cautopates from Palermo.
Rome - corner of tauroctony, with Cautes and Sol
S. Stefano Rotondo, Rome - Dedication to Cautes.
Stockstadt
Yorkshire
Leontocephalous
Bordeaux
Florence
Modena - Not actually with a lion's head.
Museum of Ancient Arles (CIMRM 879)
Rome
Rome, Vatican Library
Rome, Vatican Museum
Unknown Provenance
Mithraea:
Carrawburgh
Carrawburgh, closeup on altars
Cyrene, Libya
London
Ostia Page with links to pages about all of the mithraea there. Wonderful site.
Ostia 1
Ostia 2
Ostia with people inside to show you just how claustrophobic the mithraea were.
Rome (San Clemente)
Wiesloch
Mithras
Arles
Sindelfingen
A truly remarkable head of a statue of Mithras.
Petragenetrix:
?
Acuincum
Rome, Baths of Diocletian
Carrawburgh
Guglingen - With Cautes and Cautopates
Stockstadt
Trier
Tauroctonies:
Apulum, Romania
British Museum
Brukenthal Museum
Carrara
Constanta Museum
Dormagen
Dura Europos
Koln
Kongen
Konigsbrunn
Kreta
Ladenburg
Lezoux. On a pot!
Marino
Marino 2. Good pictures of the side images.
Metz
Mircea Voda, Romania
Mocici, Croatia
Naples
Nemea. An intaglio.
Nersae
Neuenheimer, near Heidelburg
Neustadt-Gimmeldingen
Osterburken
Ostia 1
Ostia 2
Palermo
Paris (in the Louvre)
Ptuj, Slovenia
Rome (Baths of Diocletian 1)
Rome (Baths of Diocletian 2)
Rome (Vatican Musuem 1)- I was able to get directions to this from the museum guard, even though I don't speak Italian, and he didn't speak English, by miming the stabbing of the knife.
Rome (Vatican Museum 2)
Rožanec, Slovenia
San Clemente
Sarrebourg
Turda/Potaissa, Romania
Santa Barbara Museum of Art If anyone knows the provenance of this piece, please let me know.
Sarrebourg
Sibiu Museum
Toronto (Royal Ontario Museum)
Venice
Vienna
Verona
Vindobona
Walbrook
Wiesbaden- which is where I went to 5th and 6th grade.
Other:
Meal of Sol and Mithras
Koln
Marino. A tauoctony with individual photographs of such scenes as Mithras carrying the bull and the arrow water miracle.
Ladenburg - Meal of Mithras and Sol
Mithras and Sol from the Louvre
Mithras, Sol, and Oceanus (CIMRM 2244)
Mithras, Sol, and Oceanus wrapped in a serpent (CIMRM 1958)
Mithras the Archer
Mosaic - A syncretistic mosaic which seems to have one of the torchbearers on the left, Adonis (?) on the right, the eagle of Zeus above, and Jesus in the middle. I know nothing more about this mosaic except what is shown here, and would be thrilled to learn more about it.
Ostia, mosaic 1
Ostia, mosaic 2
Ostia, mosaic 3
Ostia, mosaic 4
Drawing of a Pater
Sibiu Museum - Mithras riding the bull.
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