The New Mithraeum Database

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

Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes various singular features specific to the Danubian area.

This limestone altar to Sol Invictus Mithra was found at Turda in 1905.

This is the second altar found in Ceanu Mic to date, dedicated to an Invictus being.

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

This altar to Invictus Mythra (sic) was found in 1867 in ancient Maros Portum, now Sighișoara, Romania.

This is one of the at least three inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marcus to Mithras Invictus found in Alba Iulia, Romania.

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

This monument bears an inscription to Mithras by a well-known general of the Roman Empire.

Mithraic stele, from Alba Iulia, Romania, with inscription.

This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.

Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.

Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.

This altar dedicated to the Invincible Sol Mithra was found in 1878 in a cemetery in Alba Iulia.

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

This relief of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated by the bearer of the imperial standard of Legio XIII Gemina, Marcus Ulpius Linus.