The New Mithraeum Database

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

The Mühltal Mithraic crater was discovered among the artefacts of a mithraeum found in Pfaffenhoffen am Inn, Bavaria.

TNMM393

This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.

TNMM550

Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.

TNMM91

This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.

TNMM633 – CIMRM 1014, 1015

A dinner scene with Sabina from the Catacombe dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro, near Rome, may have been commissioned by a follower of Mithras.

TNMM342

In the irregular room opposite the sanctuary, the so-called Dominicum Clementis, a marble statuette, representing a bearded person as the good Shepherd was found.

TNMM959 – CIMRM 345

Marble altar, found in S.

TNMM1058 – CIMRM 515