The New Mithraeum Database

Inscription from Kilisse-Hissar (Tyana).

During excavations at Boghaz-Koi in 1907 clay tablets were found on which a treaty concluded between Chatti and Mitanni in the 14th century B.

Exceptional sculpture of a lion devouring a bull's head founded in 1894 in Carnuntum, Pannonia.

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.

This scene of the main fresco of the Mithraeum Barberini seems to depict part of the initiation into the Mithraic Mysteries.

This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.

Peltuinum was a Roman town of the Vestini on the Via Claudia Nova, founded in the mid-1st century BC. It developed into a regional centre with city walls, a sanctuary, a theatre and an amphitheatre, and was monumentalised in the early Imperial period

Lanuvium (modern Lanuvio) was an ancient city of Latium Vetus, about 32 km southeast of Rome. A member of the Latin League, it was conquered by Rome in 338 BC and remained an active municipium into the Imperial period.

He devoted an altar to his father, Pater Patrum of Vieu

The altar of Sol from Inveresk, Scotland, was pierced, probably to illuminate part of the temple with a particular effect.

Visentium was the Latin name of one of the minor Etruscan cities.

This sandstone altar found in Cologne bears an inscription to the goddess Semele and her sisters.

Aelius Nigrinus dedicated this small altar in Carnuntum to the rock from which Mithras was born.

Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.

The key of Nida's Mithraeum III was decorated with a lion's head.

The area was populated by Iberians, but the origins of Baetulo date back to the 1st century BC, when the Romans founded the city on the Rosés hill. Baetulo was famous for its vineyards, which produced wine for export throughout the Empire.