The New Mithraeum Database

Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

The Isis of Merida is covered by a long dress that reaches down to her feet.

The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.

This sculpture may be a naked dadophorus, probably Cautopates.

Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.

Kamerios reached the seventh grade in the Mithraic ladder. A couple of graffitis celebrate his achievements in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

This altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.

This altar is dedicated to the god Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Florus, a veteran of the Legio III Augusta.

This altar was dedicated by a certain Marcus Aurelius Decimus to Sol Mithras and other gods in Diana, Numibia, present Argelia.

Excerpted from Mushroom, Myth and Mithras, this passage elaborates on the Mithraic ritual and the degree of Nymphus.