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The New Mithraeum Database

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Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

 
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Tauroctony from Domus del Mitreo of Tarquinia

Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.

 
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Mithraeum of Dunaújváros (Intercisa)

The Dunaújváros Mithraeum was discovered in 1973.

 
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Lion relief from Nemrut Dag

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

 
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Tauroctony from Vermaseren's private collection

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

 
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Mitreo di Vulci

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

 
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Temple of Garni

After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

 
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Mithra temple of Marāgheh

The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.

 
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Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.

 
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Cautes fresco from Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere

In the Mithraeum of S. Capua Veteres, Cautes stands between two laurel trees.

 
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Two-sided relief of Fiano Romano

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

 
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Mithraic arcosolium of Catacombe de Marcellino e Pietro

A dinner scene with Sabina from the Catacombe dei Santi Marcellino e Pietro, near Rome, may have been commissioned by a follower of Mithras.

 
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Mithras riding the bull

Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.

 
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Re-used Neolithic axe-head inscribed with a Tauroctony

According to Christopher A. Faraone, the axe-head from Argos belong to a category of thunderstones reused as amulets.

 
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Aion of Memphis

This statue of the god lion-head was found in Memphis, Egypt.

 
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Aion of Oxyrhynchus

According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.

 
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Dancing out the Mysteries of Dionysos

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.

 
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Mitreo de Carminiello ai Mannesi

The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.

 
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Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs and the Cult of Mithras

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.

 
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Mithraeum of Heviz

The Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy

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