The New Mithraeum Database

Boulogne-sur-Mer; Picard: Boulonne-su-Mér; Dutch: Bonen; Latin: Gesoriacum or Bononia, often called just Boulogne, is a coastal city in Northern France.

Laurent Bricault révolutionne les études mithriaques avec l’exposition Le Mystère Mithra. Rencontre à Toulouse avec ce professeur pour une plongée fascinante dans les dernières découvertes sur ce culte invincible.

This temple of Mithras has been discovered under the Church in Vieux-en-Val-Romey, in 1869.

TNMM295 – CIMRM 909, 910

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

TNMM223

W. Blawatsky et G. Kochelenko, Le culte de Mithra sur la côte septentrionale de la Mer Noire. Leyde, E. J. Brill, 1966. 1 16 X 24 cm, 36 pp., 1 carte, 16 pli., 1 frontispice (Études PRÉLIMINAIRES AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES DANS L'EMPIRE VIII). Prix : …

Douze siècles séparent le déclin du Mithraïsme romain de l'aube de la Franc-maçonnerie. Douze siècles pendant lesquels les mystères de Mithra sont restés plus secrets que jamais.

On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste dominé par le découpage administratif des « Roman provinces of Gaul ». Mais compte tenu de l'ensemble que ce…

This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

TNMM599 – CIMRM 916

The cenders of Chyndonax were found on an urn with an inscription that reads High Priest of Mithras.

The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.

TNMM285

The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.

TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313

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

TNMM220

The mithraic relief of Baris, current Turkey, depicts a proto version of the Tauroctony with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

TNMM284

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

TNMM5 – CIMRM 216

Ce 4e fascicule de Mithriaca concerne un très curieux monument exhumé au XVIe siècle sur le site d'un Mithraeum qu'on localise tout près de l'église S. Maria in Domnica, non loin de S. Stefano Rotondo où un autre spelaeum fut mis au jour en 1973.

In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

TNMM286 – CIMRM 52

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

TNMM33

Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life.

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.