The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

The city of Hatra was famed for its fusion of several civilization cults, which several temples devoted to gods from all Indo-European world.

After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.

Tauroctony in black marble on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.

The archeologists have found three fragments of the Tauroctony of Lucciana, which includes Cautes and Cautopates.

The Mithraeum of Szony has the form of a grotto and the entrance is on the west side.

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.

In Aquincum petrogenia, Mithras holds the usual dagger and torch as he emerges from the rock.

This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.

The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.

On Hadrian's Wall lies the ruin of a subterranean temple to a little-known god, at the centre of a secretive Roman cult.

The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.

Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

In one of Hawarte's frescoes, the rock birth of Mithras is preceded by Zeus and followed by the young Persian god suspended from a cypress tree.