The New Mithraeum Database

"The remaining figure on this monument, Herakles, was previously misidentified as Apollo on this remarkable black basalt tablet from Samsat, known in Roman times as Samosata.

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

This altar, dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Eutyches for the health of the Emperor Caracalla, was found in Sisak, Croatia, in 1899.

Marble slab with inscription by Velox for the salvation of the chief of the iron mines of Noricum.

This marble sculpture from Sicily, known as the Randazzo Vecchio or Rannazzu Vecchiu, contains some essential elements of the Mithraic Aion, the lion-headed god.

This fine Roman marble slab of the killing bull of Mithras belongs to a private owner, most recently from Los Angeles, USA.

Archéologue et historien de l’art belge, professeur à l’université de Liège, et directeur du Domaine & Musée royal de Mariemont.

This small white marble cippus bears an inscription of a certain Pater Antoninus to Cautes.

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.

This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.

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