The New Mithraeum Database

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.

This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.

Three larger altars and other finds from the Mithraeum of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.

This statuette was bought by A. Wiedemann in Luxor in 1882 from a man from Kus.

According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.

This altar to Deo Invicto was found during the excavation of the Monastero Delle Benedettine di Santa Grata in Bergamo, with a bronze calf’s head on top.

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.