The New Mithraeum Database

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.

Intervention de Nicolas Amoroso, commissaire de l’exposition Le Mystère Mithra.

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

This painting depicts an Iranian knight holding in a chain a black naked figure with two heads.

The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.

This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.