The New Mithraeum

Veteran recalled to imperial service and sole named devotee of Mithras currently attested at Grumentum.

Pater sacrorum attested in a funerary inscription from Murviel-lès-Montpellier, probably connected with the Mithraic community of Nemausus.

Fragment of a sandstone relief from Nida-Heddernheim depicting the torchbearer Cautopates.

Bronze statuette bearing a Mithraic inscription, subsequently demonstrated by Anna Sadurska to be a modern forgery.

Small bronze statuette in Oriental dress from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, depicting a figure no longer considered a Mithraic object.

Small bronze torchbearer statuette in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, with restored feet and a missing torch-bearing arm.

Bronze torchbearer statuette in a short tunic from the Cabinet des Médailles, holding an upraised torch.

Pair of bronze torchbearer statuettes in Oriental dress from the Cabinet des Médailles, originally belonging to the same sculptural group.

Black jasper gem from the Seyrig collection, depicting Mithras radiate slaying the bull, with the god grasping the muzzle with the left hand and driving a knife into the animal's neck with the right.

Fragment of yellowish chalcedony in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, formerly in the Millingen collection, depicting the standard tauroctony.

Rock-crystal gem in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with the standard iconographic programme.

White carnelian with red stripes, reportedly acquired at Epidaurum, depicting what may be Mithras as bull-slayer before a burning altar surmounted by a crescent and a nine-rayed star.

Oval jasper gem in the Cairo Museum depicting Mithras slaying the bull with Sol, Luna, a leontocephalic figure and seven stars.

Gem formerly published as Mithraic by Cumont but subsequently identified as depicting the Egyptian deity Besa.

Gold ring amulet formerly in the Schlumberger Collection, published as Mithraic by Cumont and later identified as a healing charm against colic and diseases of the uterus.

Yellow jasper fragment of unknown provenance, formerly in the Museo Borgiano, with a tauroctony on the obverse and a Mithraic figure on the reverse.

Yellow lenticular carnelian gem probably from Aquileia, now in Udine, depicting a Mithraic scene nearly identical to the Florence jasper.

This white marble statue of the rock-birth from Cibinium in Roman Dacia is one of the largest known Mithraic sculptures from the Danubian provinces.

Silver belt fitting with Mithras tauroctony and aristocratic hunting horsemen, fourth century AD.

White marble tauroctony relief in several fragments from the Mithraeum at Biljanovac, Moesia Superior, depicting the standard bull-slaying with the full iconographic programme.