The New Mithraeum Database

Excerpted from Mushroom, Myth and Mithras, this passage elaborates on the Mithraic ritual and the degree of Nymphus.

This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca Tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.

The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular.

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

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Danaújváros was found broken into three parts in a tomb looted in antiquity.

Wright’s extended essay on Phallic worship is distinguished by much better scholarship and writing than some of the other works of this genre.

The temple contained hundreds of ceramic vessels and animal bones, which may indicated that a grand Mithraic feast was celebrated before its closing.

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

This syncretic amulet depicting Abraxas and the word MIΘPAZ was once displayed in the Cappello Museum of Venice.

This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

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

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.

This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.