The New Mithraeum Database in Egypt

This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

TNMM431 – CIMRM 105

Discovered in Memphis, Egypt, a second relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

TNMM605 – CIMRM 92

This Mithras killing the Bull relief from Memphis, Egypt, it is preserved in the Museum of Cairo.

TNMM112 – CIMRM 93

Hermopolis, the city of Hermes, was an important city located between Lower and Upper Egypt. A provincial capital since the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Hermopolis developed into a major city of Roman Egypt.

Mampsis or Memphis, today Mamshit, Arabic Kurnub, is a former Nabataean caravan stop and Byzantine city.

In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.

TNMM301 – CIMRM 91

This statue of the god lion-head was found in Memphis, Egypt.

TNMM323 – CIMRM 94

According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.

TNMM271 – CIMRM 103

At about a mile's distance from the village of Mit-Rahine near Memphis a Mithraeum has been discovered, which itself has not yet been described.

TNMM44 – CIMRM 91

Statue in limestone (H. 0.75).

TNMM841 – CIMRM 95

Fragment of a statuette in limestone (H. 0040).

TNMM842 – CIMRM 96

Statuette in limestone (H. 0.50).

TNMM843 – CIMRM 97

Upper part of a statue in limestone (H. 0040).

TNMM844 – CIMRM 98

Badly damaged fragment of a statuette in limestone (H. 0.25).

TNMM845 – CIMRM 99

Statue in limestone (H. 0.50).

TNMM846 – CIMRM 100

Two figures of women, of which it is not sure that they have been found inside the enclosure of the Mithraeum (H. 0.45 and 0.50).

TNMM847 – CIMRM 101