The New Mithraeum Database

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Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

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The monument of San Juan de la Isla (Asturias) devoted to Mithras was preserved in the portico of the main church until 1843.

The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.

The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.

The altar depicting a lion-headed figure from Bordeaux includes a sculpted ewer and a patera on the sides.

Interpreting the Bas-relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Osterburken in the Light of Porphyry’s Treatise, The Cave of the Nymphs.

The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.

This syncretic amulet depicting Abraxas and the word MIΘPAZ was once displayed in the Cappello Museum of Venice.

This fragmented altar was erected by two brothers from the Legio II Adiutrix who also built a temple.

As usual, the solar god rises a dagger with one of his hands while emerges from the rock.

This remarkable relief by Cautes was found in what appears to be a mithraeum in Trier.

A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

This is one of the few known Mithraic inscriptions dedicated by a member who attained the grade of Perses.

Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.

Le culte romain de Mithra. Entre réalités antiques et fantasmes contemporains ! Par Richard Veymiers, directeur du Domaine et Musée royal de Mariemont.

Did Apuleius explain his very own initiation into the Mysteries of Mithras in The Golden Ass? Apuleius' The Golden Ass is one of the most famous and entertaining novels of antiquity. Among his adventures, Lucius is initiated into the mysteries of Isis…