The New Mithraeum Database

This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

This inscription found in the Mithraeum Aldobrandini informs us of certain restorations carried out in the temple during a second phase of development.

The Mithraeum of Schwarzerden, also know as Mithräum von Reichweiler, was carved on the rock.

This fine Roman marble slab of the killing bull of Mithras belongs to a private owner, most recently from Los Angeles, USA.

During the first semester of his sophomore year at Crozer, King composed a paper for Enslin’s course on Greek religion, focusing on Mithraism.

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.

Sol watches Mithras as he gazes Mithras gazes up to heaven while sharing the sacred meal.

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

Second Mithraic monument dedicated by the Kastos family, found not far from the Arco di S. Lazzaro, in Rome.

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

These three fragments of carved marble depict Jupiter, Sol, Luna and a naked man wearing a Phrygian cap, with inscriptions calling Mithras Sanctus Dominum.

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

The altar depicting a lion-headed figure from Bordeaux includes a sculpted ewer and a patera on the sides.

C’est en 1986, à l’occasion de la restructuration de l’ancien magasin Parunis, qu’une fouille de sauvetage archéologique fut réalisée cours Victor Hugo.

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

The dedicator of this altar was a slave in the service of a high official, the prefect Gaius Antonius Rufus, known from other inscriptions.

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.