The New Mithraeum Database

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a ’secret forest’ in Moesia.

Sepulchral limestone inscription from the vicinity of the Mithraeum at Colonia Agrippina (Germania Inferior), mentioning the Mithraic grade Corax.

A gold coin depicting a bearded god with a crescent facing another god with a nimbus and a radiate crown, identified as Mithras by Vermaseren.

Bas-relief depicting a naked Sol leaning over his fellow Mithras while raising a drinking horn during the sacred feast.

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

Triangular relief in yellow sandstone showing a crescent in relief.

Sandstone petrogenesis from Petronell-Carnuntum (Lower Austria), depicting Mithras emerging from the rock, preserved from the knees upwards.

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

Bronze head in Phrygian cap with seven rays.

Sandstone relief of Mithras killing the bull, broken in two parts and partly restored, with dog, serpent and scorpion preserved; formerly in Vienna, now on loan to the Museum Carnuntinum.

The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.

Statue of Cautes from Bodobrica, discovered around 1940, depicting the torchbearer standing before a tree or rock and associated with a bucranium.

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

The Mithraic vase from Ballplatz in Mainz depicts seven figures arranged in two narrative sequences, commonly interpreted in relation to initiation rites.

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

Trabzon is a historic city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by Greek colonists from Miletus. It passed from Achaemenid control to the Kingdom of Pontus, then became part of the Roman and Byzantine empires.