The New Mithraeum Database

A study that re-examines Roman Mithraism through epigraphic evidence and comparative analysis, exploring its links with Orphism, Platonism, and Iranian traditions, and presenting the cult of Mithras as a solar path of individual spiritual awakening between East and West…

A philosophical study of Iranian civilization that explores its spiritual foundations, including the legacy of Mithraic and Zoroastrian traditions, in order to reflect on Iran’s historical continuity and civilizational meaning.

The first and the third of the following essays written by Julius Evola are dedicated to the mysteries of Mithras, while the second essay concerns itself with the Roman Emperor, Julian.

Francesco Massa examines how the concept of mysteria was transformed in the Roman Empire, as Christian authors from the mid-second century CE adopted the language of mysteries to articulate their own rituals and beliefs, reshaping understandings of both Christian and traditional cults…

Memoir by Félix Lajard analysing a Mithraic bas-relief discovered in Vienne in 1830. Based on direct examination of the fragments and their context, the study corrects an earlier misidentification and documents a rare lion-headed figure within a probable mithraeum…

Interprets Mithraism as an initiatory path of inner transformation, reading its myths and rites as symbolic maps of consciousness rather than as historical narratives, and includes an appendix with the Ritual of Mithra from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris…

The Mithraeum of Regensburg represents the earliest of the nine Mithraic sanctuaries so far documented in Bavaria, Germany.

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Stela dedicated to Mithras Invictus, found in 1895–1896 at Epamantodurum (modern Mandeure), in the territory of the civitas Sequanorum (Gallia Belgica). The inscription records a vow to Mithras Invictus made for the welfare of Sextus Maenius Pudens.

The altar with a Phrygian cap and a dagger from Trier was erected by a Pater called Martius Martialis.

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

The Mithraic vase from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in Germany includes Sol-Mithras between Cautes and Cautopates, as well as a serpent, a lion and seven stars.

This gold coin depicts Kanishka I on one side and Mithras standing on the other side.

Bas-relief depicting a naked Sol leaning over his fellow Mithras while raising a drinking horn during the sacred feast.

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.

This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

Nida was an ancient Roman town in the area today occupied by the northwestern suburbs of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, specifically Frankfurt-Heddernheim, on the edge of the Wetterau region.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.