The New Mithraeum Database

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

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.

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

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

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.

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.

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The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.

A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.

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

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

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

Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.

The Mithraeum of Mocici was situated in a grotto at one hour's walk fomr the ancient Epidaurum.

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.