The New Mithraeum Database

The archaeology of the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh

Jean-Christophe Piot a participé à la réalisation de l'exposition 'Le mystère Mithra' en réalisant des pastilles sonores sur certaines œuvres de l'exposition.

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mithras But Were Afraid to Ask.

The Mithras of Cabra is the only full preserved Tauroctony sculpture found in Spain yet.

The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.

The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.

Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.

The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.

This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

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

This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Des rituels mystérieux, une hiérarchie gradée au sein d’un culte énigmatique, une société considérée pendant longtemps comme secrète au sein de l’Empire Romain…