Mar 27, 2023 · In spite of his popularity, Mithras never broke into the large pantheon of gods and goddesses that were commonly seen on coins, meaning he remained a widespread but essentially regional god....

Jan 14, 2019 · Though Mithras was named not until Artaxerxes II in the inscriptions of Achaemenids together with Ahura Mazda and Anahita (Anaitis), the above mentioned features have connected him very early with the crown. Mithras has connected the king with the men who were fighting for him.

Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion focused on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity ( yazata ) Mithra , the Roman Mithras was linked to a new and distinctive imagery, and the degree of continuity between Persian and Greco-Roman practice ...

Mar 23, 2009 · Today I have some Roman provincial coins depicting Mithras in my collection too. They are from Trapezos and Tarsos. I think my coin from Tarsos is the same type you have shown in your posting.

Apart from this, the only official depiction of Mithra under the Sasanians is on coins of Hormizd I (272-73): the god, recognizable from his rays, holds the ring of investiture out to the king across the fire altar.

Apr 27, 2017 · In Images of Mithra we picked a rather unusual subject. It is precisely the presence of labels on our images that causes problems. Take for example the Zenobius relief from Dura-Europos and this coin of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka I (AD 127-150).

Jul 10, 2014 · I wonder why the head has been identified as Mithras and not Attis. If the dating of the coin is correct, it should be most likely the Anatolian Attis, in fact the spread of the cult of Mithra from East to the Greek world was later.

Thus on the coins of the Scythian kings Kanerkes and Hooerkes reigning in North-West of India from 87-129 A.D., Mithras is represented as a solar deity with nimbus and radiate crown, but also as a war-god with lance and sword.

Jun 16, 2011 · Searching for an image of the medallion online, I encountered the image of a coin of Gordian III from Tarsus, here at Numismatics.org. The coin also has a deity wrestling a bull on the reverse — probably Mithras.