The New Mithraeum Database

A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mithras But Were Afraid to Ask.

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.

The sculpture of Mithras carrying the bull includes an inscription on its base.

This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.

This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

The Mithréum de Bourg-Saint-Andéol was built against a rock where the main Tauroctony was chiseled.

This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

This altar was dedicated to Cautes by a certain Lucius in Baetulo (Badalona), near Barcino (Barcelona).

The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.

There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.