The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

During the excavations of 1804-1805, a series of monuments dedicated to Mithras and a temple were discovered at ancient Mons Seleucus.

This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.

The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.

This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

Some scholars have speculated that the scrolls both figures hold in their hands represent Eastern doctrines brought to the Western world.

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.