The New Mithraeum Database

The Stockstadt Mercury carries a purse and a small child around which a snake is coiled.

Reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates dedicated by Florius Florentius of Saalburg and Ancarinius Severus.

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

Procession of Leones carrying animals, bread, a krater, and other objects in preparation for a feast.

Epigraphic monuments reveal the presence of a Mithraeum in the ancient municiple of Carsulae, in Umbria.

This small golden figurine seems to represent the Mithraic god Aion, as usual surrounded by a serpent.

The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.

The Mithraeum of the terms of Mithras takes its name from being installed in the service area of the Baths of Mithras.

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

This rock-cut Mithraeum occupies the north-eastern slope of the Grand-Rebberg at Saarburg, featuring a stepped entrance, a sloping central aisle, lateral benches, and a spring-fed water conduit.

An oval carnelian gem from Carnuntum showing Mithras tauroktonos in a grotto. Sol and Luna appear above, with both torchbearers and a small altar before the bull.

A limestone lion holding a flowing urn, discovered at the entrance of the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, reflects the ritual significance of water within the cult of Mithras.

Excavated in 1919, the Mithraeum near the Roman Gate was installed in the 3rd century within a larger building complex.

Greek graffiti scratched on wall plaster, recording a list of everyday expenses from Dura-Europos, Roman Syria.

This plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

Fragmentary relief corner depicting Mithras as bull-slayer, preserving the bull’s hindquarters, scorpion, serpent and part of a torchbearer, with a partial inscription.