The New Mithraeum Database

Marble inscription recording the dedication of a cult image to the unconquered Mithras by a certain pater Valerius Marinus from Rome.

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

Terracotta krater from the southern part of the Friedberg Mithraeum, discovered in 1849. The vessel is decorated in relief with serpents, a scorpion and a ladder-like motif.

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

Conglomerate statue of the birth of Mithras, found in a burnt layer, showing the god nude emerging from the rock with raised hands and a snake.

Marble votive altar with inscription to Mithras, featuring coiled, fan-like motifs above the text and associated with the statio Enensis.

This altar mentioning the god Arimanius was found in 1655 at Porta San Giovanni, on the Esquilino.

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

Mithras, also called Mitra or Mithra depending on the historical period, region or language, is one of the oldest known Indo-European gods.

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.

Proud nymphus Switzerland

The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.

A erotic military fantasy set against the dramatic background of Rome’s conquest of the British Isles.

Kerivel explore voie mystique des Alévis que, selon lui, trouve son origine dans la très ancienne religiosité des peuples iraniens et sur les structures et les rituels du culte de Mithra.

Genet aborde les thèmes qui lui sont chers, dans les règles de l’art mais en laissant affleurer un lyrisme bien tenu.

Este es un libro que pretende esbozar un panorama general de los documentos mitraicos repartidos a lo largo del Imperio romano.

Ce livre présente les religions de la Méditerranée ancienne – grecque, romaine, phénicienne et punique, hébraïque et juive, mésopotamienne, égyptienne – en mouvement. Au fur et à mesure de ces histoires de dieux en voyage…

Der römische Gott Mithras aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte.

Papers of the international conference "Roman Mithraism: the Evidence of the Small Finds". Tienen 7-8 November 2001.