The New Mithraeum Database

In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

This monument bears an inscription to Mithras by a well-known general of the Roman Empire.

A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.

This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.

The Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull, which belongs to the Louvre Museum, is currently on display in Varsovia.

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

The Mithraeum of Symphorus and Marcus, in Óbuda, Budapest, has been restored to public view in 2004 and, while well presented, it has been heavily restored.

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

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.

Excerpted from Mushroom, Myth and Mithras, this passage elaborates on the Mithraic ritual and the degree of Nymphus.

This slab dedicated to the invincible god, Serapis and Isis by Claudius Zenobius was found in 1967 in the walls of the city of Astorga, Spain.

Solis invicti Mithrae studiosus astrologiae who was at the same time ’caelo devotus et astris’.

The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

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

The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.