The New Mithraeum Database

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.

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

Marble statue of Cautes, found at Ostia. The head, one arm and the legs are missing. The figure wears a short tunic and raises the torch in the canonical upward gesture.