The New Mithraeum Database

Mithras Dualism. What are the Philosophical Consequences? Summary of Mithraic philosophy on a drawing of an ornate temple. It is possible to draw the organisation of a Mithraeum, and also his philosophical consequences…

This eulogy of Saint Eugene of Trapezos tells how, in the time of Diocletian, he and two other Christian fellows destroyed a statue of Mithras.

Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

This marble plaque was made by a Pater and priest Lucius Septimius Archelaus of Mithras for him, his wife and his freedmen and freedwomen.

This white marble relief depicting a lion-headed figure from Ostia is now exposed at the Musei Vaticani.

This marble relief, found in Sisak, Croatia, shows Mithras killing the bull in a circle of corn ears, gods and some scenes from the Mithras myth.

There is no consensus on the authenticity of this monument erected by a certain Secundinus in Lugdunum, Gallia.

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.

Only parts of the knees of Mithras, emerging from the rock, have been preserved from this monument of Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria.

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.

The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.

This altar, discovered in Grude, near Tihaljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bears an inscription by Pinnes, a soldier of the Cohors Prima Belgica.

Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).

In this 4th-century Roman altar, the senator Rufius Caeionius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

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.

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.