The New Mithraeum Database

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca Tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

The Mithraeum of Ponza was discovered in 1866. It contained the remains of a zodiac investigated by Vermaseren in 1989.

This altar dedicated to Helios Mithras by a certain Sagaris was repurposed in the masonry of Palazzo Bagnoli, Venosa, Italy.

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

This fragment of pottery depicting Mithras may have come from Gallia.

The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.

Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años…

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.

Presentation on the Dionysian-themed frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries by Peter Mark Adams on the occasion of the presentation of his book.

How a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.

Fragment of coarse-grained yellowish-white marble (H. 0.23 Br. 0.25-0.135 D. 0.05-0.06), found in 1911 at operations of the restaurant of Leopold Inama's at S.

Base of a statuette, only one foot of which has been preserved (Cautes).

Head, formerly kept at St.

According to Pagenstecher in ] dI 27, 1912, 171f in the Museum at Calena there must be a fragment of pottery with a Mithras-representation, which should come from Gallia.

This altar found in Benifaió, València, was erected by a slave called Lucanus.

This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.