The New Mithraeum Database

India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is preeminently the home of the worship of the Phallus—Linga puja. It has been so for ages and remains so still.

These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.

The altars of the gods of the Sun and Moon found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim wear openwork segments that could be lighten from behind.

This remarkable marble relief from the end of the 3rd century was discovered in the most remote room of the Mithraeum in the Circo Massimo.

Small votive altar in white limestone from Aquae Mattiacae, dedicated to Deo Invicto by a miles pius. The top preserves the head of Cautes with his raised torch.

Imperial slave and head of the customs statio of Esca in Noricum.

Limestone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum with traces of polychromy and a graffito on the bull’s neck. The inscribed base was carved separately.

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.

Small triangular slab bearing a Latin inscription referring to Sol Invictus and to a sacred cave, probably dating to the 4th century AD.

Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.

This altar was dedicated by a certain Marcus Aurelius Decimus to Sol Mithras and other gods in Diana, Numibia, present Argelia.

This altar to the god Sol invicto Mithra was erected by a legate during Maximin’s reign in Lambaesis, Numidia.

This is one of the altars erected by Septimius Valentinus, in this case, to the transitus of Mithras.

White marble relief, found near Aix "a la Torse dans un enclos ayant appartenu à la famille de Colonia".

This altar, discovered in Grude, near Tihaljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bears an inscription by Pinnes, a soldier of the Cohors Prima Belgica.

This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.