The New Mithraeum Database

Two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, have been found in Meknès, Morocco.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.

This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.

This marble relief from Alba Iulia contains numerous scenes from the myth of Mithras.

Mithras emerging from the rock with torch and dagger beside a reclining Oceanus or Saturn.

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

Diana-Luna, Mercurius, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars are depicted in the mosaics on the benches of this mithraeuma.

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.

This white marble relief of Mithas killing the sacred bull was found embedded in the building of a noble family in Pisa.

This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

One of the rooms in a sustantive masonry building in Hollytrees Meadow was considered to be a Mithreum, a theory that has now been discarded.

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.

A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.

In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.