The New Mithraeum Database

L'exposition Le Mystère de Mithra s'initie au Musée de Mariemont, en Belgique, patrie de Franz Cumont, père des études sur le dieu solaire.

Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.

Saul cutting the oxen to pieces poses as Mithras Tauroctonos in this painting, which adorns the mantelpiece of Henry II’s bedroom at the Château d’Écouen near Paris.

TNMM771

The Mithraeum or Angers contained numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps and a ceramic vessel engraved with a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

TNMM199

This inscription by a certain Aphrodisius was found under the old city hall of Algiers.

TNMM536 – CIMRM 151

A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.

TNMM678 – CIMRM 925

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

TNMM500 – CIMRM 898, 899

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

TNMM293 – CIMRM 901, 902

Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.

TNMM598

Mithras Petrogenitus from Saint-Aubin en France.

TNMM230 – CIMRM 894

The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.

TNMM148 – CIMRM 879

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

TNMM577

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

TNMM62 – CIMRM 895

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

TNMM279

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

TNMM117 – CIMRM 1332

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 967

Relief of Heracles/Hercules capturing the Golden Hind of Artemis.

TNMM326