The New Mithraeum Database

In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

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.

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

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.