The New Mithraeum Database

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

This statuette was bought by A. Wiedemann in Luxor in 1882 from a man from Kus.

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.

According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular.

Set in a Roman necropolis, the so-called Mithraeum of the Elephant takes its name from an elephant statue found in one of the tombs.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

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.

This plaque from Carsulae, in Umbria, refers to the creation of a leonteum erected by the lions at their own expense.

Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.

This 3rd century marble relief of Silvanus is the only sculpture found in Mitreo Aldobrandini.

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.