The New Mithraeum Database

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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