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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Two Mithras-Attis terracotta from Kerch

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

 
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Mercury of Groß-Gerau

The statue was dedicated to Mercury Quillenius, an epithet used to refer to a Celtic god or the Greek Kulúvios.

 
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Graffiti to Kamerios from Dura Europos Mithraeum

The text mentions a certain Kamerios, described as immaculate miles.

 
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Mosaic of Sette Sfere

The floor mosaic of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres, which gives its name to the temple, depicts a dagger.

 
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Base of statue from Mérida

This lost monument bears an inscription to Cautes by a certain Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus.

 
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Consecration for Mars Meder

The relief of naked Roman soldier, wearing a mantle and a Phrygian cap, has been related to the Mithras' cult.

 
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Cautes and Cautopates of Friedberg

These two reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates where found in the south corner of one of the Mithraea of Friedberg, Hesse.

 
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Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo

In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.

 
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Tauroctony from the Villa Borghese

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

 
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Rock birth from St Aubin

Mithras Petrogenitus from Saint-Aubin en France.

 
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Mithraea of Heddernheim

Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.

 
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Key of Mithraeum III at Nida

The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.

 
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Head of Mithras from Angers Mithraeum

The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.

 
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Mithra et Porphyre. Quand sculpture et philosophie se rejoignent

Interpreting the Bas-relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Osterburken in the Light of Porphyry’s Treatise, The Cave of the Nymphs.

 
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Mithräum von Osterburken

The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.

 
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Felsgeburt des Mithras

Mithras Petrogenitus, born from the rock, from the Mithraeum of Carnuntum III.

 
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Mitreo dei Serpenti

The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.

 
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Mitreo di Fructosus

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

 
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Tauroctonia del Cortile del Belvedere

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

 
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Mitreo del Circo Massimo

The Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus was discovered in 1931 during work carried out to create a storage area for the scenes and costumes of the Opera House within the Museums of Rome building.

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