The New Mithraeum Database

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 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.

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

Corax Materninius Faustinus dedicated other monuments found in the same Mithraeum in Gimmeldingen.

The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.