The New Mithraeum Database

How a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.

The Mithriac votive sculpture comes from a clandestine excavation in the Tarquinia area. The criminal chain is active in archaeological areas of Rome and southern Etruria.

Two fragments of red pottery, belonging to a plate (diam. 0.22), found "beim Bahneinschnitt in der Nahe der Schiitzenstrasze".

Fragment of pottery (diam. 0.095); find-spot unknown.

Three fragments of a plate (diam. 0.14), found at Treves, in the pottery's work- shops along the Ziegelstrasze near the Roman Wall.

The upper part of a dressed male person (H. 0.20 Br. 0.23 D. 0.105) with a wreath or broad ring in his r.

1) Right upper comer of a stone relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.22 D. 0.14).

Fragment of a limestone relief (H. 0.30 Br. 0.40 D. 0.09).

Fragment of a stone relief (H. 0.15 Br. 0.24 D. 0.13).

A fragment of a stone relief, broken in two pieces (H. 0.31 Br. 0.35 D. 0.03).

Fragment of a white stone relief (H. 0.23 Br. 0.29 D. 0.12).

Fragment of a pebble relief (H. 0.32 Br. 0.31 D. 0.13).

Small stone base (H. 0.17 Br. 0.16 D. 0.18), found in the bed of the river Nohain during operations at the railway (Sarriau).

Five fragments in red terra-sigillata (H. 0.09).

Red terra-sigillata cup (diam. 0.16-0.18), which has a relief-work.

Two small heads (H. 0.08-0.10) in Phrygian cap (Gallia, 308; 318 No. 41 and fig. 11), which seem to belong to a representation of Mithras tauroctone.

Altar in Lucey.

CIL XIII 546; MMM II No.

Cippus litteris non bonis saeculi secundi vel exeuntis tertii.

Altar, found in 1822.