The New Mithraeum Database

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

This small cippus to Zeus, Helios and Serapis includes Mithras as one of the main gods, although some authors argue that it could be the name of the donor.

This small bronze statuette of Mithras riding a horse is composed of two pieces.

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

The inscription pays homage to the emperor, probably Caracalla, to Mithras, the fathers, the petitor and the syndexioi.

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’.