The New Mithraeum Database

Two slaves sign this small monument to Cautes.

This small bronze tabula ansata was dedicated to Mithras by two brothers, probably not related by blood.

The spherical ceramic cup found at the Mithraeum in Angers bears an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras.

The Mitreo Fagan revealed remarkable sculptures of leon-headed figures now exposed at the Vatican Museum.

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.

The Mithraeum in Halberg hill, near Saarbrücken, is one of the oldest historical places in the area.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

This terracotta vase features prolific decoration, including Mithras Tauroctonos, Fortuna, Cautes, a dog and Pan playing a syrinx.

This standing sculptural figure from Mérida appears to carry the serpent staff, characteristic of the medicine god Aesculapius.

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

Roger Beck revisits the zodiac circle of the Mithraeum on the island of Ponza, a composition unique within the Mithraic corpus. His reading places the monument in relation to cosmology, ritual space, and Mithraic doctrine.

The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.

The altar of the Sun god belongs to the typology of the openwork altar to be illuminated from behind.

The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.

The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.