The New Mithraeum Database

This lamp, depicting a man slicing his victim into pieces with a sword, was believed to be associated with the Cult of Mithras.

The lion-headed figure from Rusicade, now Skikda, holds a key in both hands and features a pine cone beside his feet.

This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

This enigmatic fresco on top of the main tauroctony shows Mithras killing the bull, accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates, surrounded by burning altars and cypress trees.

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

An inscription by a certain Aurelius Rufinus reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, but it has not yet been found.

The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it’s the latest know and used.

The Mithraeum was housed in a cave. The vault is almost dome-shaped and in front of the cave there is enough space for a possible adjacent temple.

The Hekataion of Sidon, which depicts Hekate in her trimorphic form surrounded by three dancing girls, is the only example found to date in connection with the Mithraic cult.

This altar was originally consecrated to Hercules and was rededicated to Mithras by Callinicus in the Mithraeum of the House of Diana.

The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.