The New Mithraeum Database

The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.

This lamp, depicting a man slicing his victim into pieces with a sword, was believed to be associated with the Cult of Mithras.

Procession of Leones carrying animals, bread, a krater, and other objects in preparation for a feast.

This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.

Upon first examination, archaeologists interpreted the inscription on the cult vessel from Gradishje as referencing Mithras, though it has since been re-evaluated.

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

This inscription found in the Mithraeum Aldobrandini informs us of certain restorations carried out in the temple during a second phase of development.

This altar for the completion of a temple to Sol Invictus by Flavius Lucilianus was found in Fossa, Italy.

This inscription shows that Publilius Ceionius, most distinguished man, dedicated a temple to Mithras at Mila, in the modern Constantina, Algeria.

This inscription reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, Greece, which has not yet been found.

This altar is dedicated to the god Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Florus, a veteran of the Legio III Augusta.

This monument bears an inscription to Mithras by a well-known general of the Roman Empire.

Several figures related to the Mysteries of Mithras are depicted on the mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Animals.

Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).

A standing half naked man makes offerings to an altar while holding a cornucopia in his other hand.

In this 4th-century Roman altar, the senator Rufius Caeionius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

This limestone altar dedicated to Mithras by a certain Veturius Dubitatus was found in Dalj, Croatia, in 1910.

This stone altar found in Poreč was dedicated by two freedmen to the numen and majesty of the emperors Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa.

One of the two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, found in Meknès, Morocco.

This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.