The New Mithraeum Database

To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.

This altar dedicated to Helios Mithras by a certain Sagaris was repurposed in the masonry of Palazzo Bagnoli, Venosa, Italy.

White marble relief, found near Aix "a la Torse dans un enclos ayant appartenu à la famille de Colonia".

Altar in limestone from the Jura, found "bei Verbreiterung der Moselbahn unweit der Uberflihrung des Weberbaches" near the Therms (1879).

The altars of the gods of the Sun and Moon found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim wear openwork segments that could be lighten from behind.

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

There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.

A sixth temple dedicated to Mithras has been identified for the first time in the military sector of the ancient Roman city of Aquincum.

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Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.

This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.

This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

The Hekataion of Sidon shows a triple Hekate surrounded by three dancing nymphs.

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.