The New Mithraeum Database

The lion-headed statue of Hedderneheim is a reconstruction from fragments of two different sculptures.

TNMM238 – CIMRM 1138

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

Laurent Bricault révolutionne les études mithriaques avec l’exposition Le Mystère Mithra. Rencontre à Toulouse avec ce professeur pour une plongée fascinante dans les dernières découvertes sur ce culte invincible.

The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.

This sculpture of Mithras being born from a rock is unique in the position of the hands.

TNMM761

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

TNMM198 – CIMRM 1083

This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.

TNMM105 – CIMRM 1110

Nida was an ancient Roman town in the area today occupied by the northwestern suburbs of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, specifically Frankfurt-Heddernheim, on the edge of the Wetterau region.

The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.

TNMM388 – CIMRM 1127

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

TNMM256 – CIMRM 430