The New Mithraeum Database

Marble fragment with an inscription (ILN 1954,636).

Mithraic Community for the English-speaking world.

This oolite base, dedicated to the invincible Mithras, was found in the baths of the Villa de Caerleon, Walles.

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

One of the rooms in a sustantive masonry building in Hollytrees Meadow was considered to be a Mithreum, a theory that has now been discarded.

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

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One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.

The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.