The New Mithraeum Database

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Statue in limestone (H. 0.75).

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

Statuette in limestone (H. 0.50).

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

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

Statue in limestone (H. 0.50).

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).