The New Mithraeum Database

The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.

TNMM367 – CIMRM 1861

The dedicator of this altar was a slave in the service of a high official, the prefect Gaius Antonius Rufus, known from other inscriptions.

TNMM402 – CIMRM 1846

In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult…

This altar, discovered in Grude, near Tihaljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bears an inscription by Pinnes, a soldier of the Cohors Prima Belgica.

TNMM754 – CIMRM 1889

This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.

TNMM702 – CIMRM 1859

He was a soldier of the Cohors I Belgarum, probably of Dalmatian origin, who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Aufustianis.

Estate manager and slave of Caius Antonius Rufus, prefect of roads and customs collector.

The Mithraea in the territory of Arupium were first mentioned by Š. Ljubić in 1882.

TNMM59

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

TNMM765

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896

Tihaljina is a town in southwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller found at Vratnitsa, near Lisicici in northern Macedonia, was signed by a certain Menander Aphrodisieus.

TNMM701 – CIMRM 1893, 1894

Vratnica is a small village and community located in the Jegunovce Municipality of North Macedonia.

Three small limestone altars were found in the Jajce Mithraeum, one of which bears the inscription ’Invicto’.

TNMM699 – CIMRM 1904

Three larger altars and other finds from the Mithraeum of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

TNMM700 – CIMRM 1905

Beheaded Cautopates in limestone found on the podium of the Jajce Mithraeum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

TNMM698 – CIMRM 1903

The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.

TNMM63 – CIMRM 1901

The relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Jajce Mithraeum is walled into the cult niche and surmounted by a roof.

TNMM697 – CIMRM 1902

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in Golubić, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near a cementery.

TNMM696 – CIMRM 1910, 1911