The New Mithraeum Database

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.

Sepulchral limestone inscription from the vicinity of the Mithraeum at Colonia Agrippina (Germania Inferior), mentioning the Mithraic grade Corax.

Bas-relief depicting a naked Sol leaning over his fellow Mithras while raising a drinking horn during the sacred feast.

Limestone low-relief depicting Cautopates standing cross-legged in eastern dress, accompanied by a bull, flowing water from an overturned jar and a crescent from Bolognia.

This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

Solin is a town in Dalmatia, Croatia, developed on the location of ancient city of Salona, which was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia and the birthplace of Emperor Diocletian.

The Mithraeum II in Stockstadt was in fact the first one known built in the vicus. It was destroyed by fire around 210.

Sandstone relief depicting the god Aion, standing with wings, a staff and a key, accompanied by a lion and a serpent-entwined vessel.

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

Terracotta krater from the southern part of the Friedberg Mithraeum, discovered in 1849. The vessel is decorated in relief with serpents, a scorpion and a ladder-like motif.

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

The Mithraeum of Rudchester was discovered in 1844 on the brow of the hill outside the roman station.

Fragment of limestone from Porêts, which was used in the 4th century.

Bronze head in Phrygian cap with seven rays.

Statue of Cautes from Bodobrica, discovered around 1940, depicting the torchbearer standing before a tree or rock and associated with a bucranium.