The New Mithraeum Database

This fragmentary relief shows Cautopates bordered by three of the six zodiacal signs with which He is associated: Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.

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

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.

Dutch historian, born in 1918 and deceased in 1985. He was a specialist in the history of religions, especially the Eastern cults in the Roman Empire. A prolific writer, best known for his Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae.

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.

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 Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

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 Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

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.