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The New Mithraeum Database

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Mithréum de Dyo

A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.

 
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Altar of Malaga

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

 
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Altars of Dura Europos

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

 
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Cautes and Cautopates of Sarrebourg

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.

 
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Petrogeny with a sheaf of wheat of Cologne

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

 
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Portable tauroctony of Vienna

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

 
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Tauroctony from Toronto

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum.

 
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Torchbearer restored as Paris

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

 
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Tauroctony from Capri

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

 
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Painted tauroctony from Rome

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

 
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Tauroctony from Donja Plemenšćina, Pregrada

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.

 
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Cautes of Sisak

This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.

 
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Cautes of Transylvania

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

 
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Tauroctony from Becker’s collection

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

 
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Cautopates from Jajce

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

 
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Mithraeum of Jajce

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

 
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Petrogeny from Bingen

This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.

 
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Aion of Porsione

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

 
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Inscription of Sahin

This mithraic inscription in greek was found in a place called Sahin in Phoenicia.

 
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Graffito of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana

In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.

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