The New Mithraeum Database

Altar inscription from Sahin invoking the most high heavenly god and Mithras in the Alawite Mountains.

Mithraic sanctuary found in 1897 on the slope of the Repovic mountains on the right bank of the river Trstenic near Konjic in Herzegovina, Dalmatia; a limestone sanctuary with cult relief, altar, and architectural elements.

Altar and a relief of a figure tearing a lion to pieces, found along the Otočac–Gospić road near the mountains Veliki and Mali Vitalj, Dalmatia; the tauroctony interpretation of the lion-tearing relief was subsequently disputed.

Two small limestone heads in Phrygian caps from the Stockhorn Mountains near Thun-Allmendingen, each approximately fist-sized, probably belonging to statues of the torchbearers.

The Roman settlement overlooked a passage between the Hodna and the Sahara via the Aïn Rich plain and the valley of the Oued Chaïr, between the Ouled-Naïl and Zab mountains.

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.

Timgad was a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria.

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

Susa was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran.

Senj is a town on the upper Adriatic coast in Croatia, in the foothills of the Mala Kapela and Velebit mountains. The symbol of the town is the Nehaj Fortress which was completed in 1558. Senj is to be found in the Lika-Senj County of Croatia, the

Sarrebourg is a commune of northeastern France. In 1895 a Mithraeum was discovered at Sarrebourg at the mouth of the pass leading from the Vosges Mountains.

In his first book, Fahim Ennouhi sheds light on the cult of Mithras in Roman Africa. A marginal and elitist phenomenon, confined to restricted circles and largely absent from local religious dynamics, yet revealing.

There is no solid evidences of the finding of a Mithraic temple in Duhok, Iraq.

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

Some Iranian archaeologists suggest that the carving was created by a follower of Mithraism as it depicts a simple portrayal of a human with his right hand raised and an object in his hand. But, experts say it needs much more study in order to date the pe

How a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.