The New Mithraeum Database

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As usual, the solar god rises a dagger with one of his hands while emerges from the rock.

TNMM434 – CIMRM 2184

Hyacinthus, like Hermadio, seems to have been one of the profets of Mithraism in the Dacian region.

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

TNMM341 – CIMRM 2264, 2265

The Cautopates with scorpion found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa includes an inscription of a certain slave known as Synethus.

TNMM521 – CIMRM 2120, 2121

Account's assistant and slave, Synethus dedicated a Cautopates with a scorpion in Sarmizegetusa.

The rock of Mithra's birth in the Petrogenia of Sarmizegetusa is surrounded by a snake.

TNMM436 – CIMRM 2134

Dedicated a stele in Nicopolis ad Istrum.

Dedicated a stele in Nicopolis ad Istrum, previously dedicated by a certain Galerios.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

TNMM432 – CIMRM 2063

The Mithraeum of Slaveni was discovered in 1837 on the right bank of the river Olt, in Romanati district.

TNMM74

The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.

TNMM281

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

TNMM213 – CIMRM 1991

Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.

TNMM155 – CIMRM 2186