The New Mithraeum Database

This small cippus to Zeus, Helios and Serapis includes Mithras as one of the main gods, although some authors argue that it could be the name of the donor.

This small bronze statuette of Mithras riding a horse is composed of two pieces.

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

Marble slab with inscription by Velox for the salvation of the chief of the iron mines of Noricum.

A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.

The Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

This monument depicts Mihr/Mithras watching over the transition of power from Shapur II to Ardashit II, which took place in 379.

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

This marble sculpture from Sicily, known as the Randazzo Vecchio or Rannazzu Vecchiu, contains some essential elements of the Mithraic Aion, the lion-headed god.

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

On one of the capitals of the cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, Sicily, an unusual turbaned bull-slaying Mithras has been recorded.

What appears to be a representation of Mithras killing the bull appears in the 12th century frescoes of the Basilica dei Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome.

The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

A second Mithraeum was found in Cologne described by R. L. Grodon as of ’small importance’.

This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.

The Mithraeum of Symphorus and Marcus, in Óbuda, Budapest, has been restored to public view in 2004 and, while well presented, it has been heavily restored.

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.

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

Ancient noble family from Spain, currently having long vacations in Chile, South America