The New Mithraeum Database

Monumentum

Altar with Mithras rock-birth of Nida

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

TNMM388 – CIMRM 1127

D(eo) inv(icto) Mit(hrae) / Senilius Car/antinus / c(ivis) Medio/m(atricus) V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito) / Sive Cracissiu[s]. // P(etram) genetricem.

Monumentum

Altar of Senj made by the slave Hermes

The dedicator of this altar was a slave in the service of a high official, the prefect Gaius Antonius Rufus, known from other inscriptions.

TNMM402 – CIMRM 1846

I(nvicto) M(ithrae) / spelaeum cum / omne impen/sa Hermes C(aii) / Antoni(i) Rufi / praef(ecti) veh(iculorum) et / cond(uctoris) p(ublici) p(ortorii)/ ser(vus) vilic(us) Fortu/nat(us or -ianus) fecit.

Monumentum

Oceaunus of Mérida

The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

TNMM428 – CIMRM 778, 779

G(aius) Acc(ius) Hedychrus / p(ater) patrum

Monumentum

Small Aion from unkown provenence

Its base is partially broken, so it is unclear if the figure was standing on a globe, an expected position, or not.

TNMM433

Monumentum

Round Tauroctony of Split

The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.

TNMM367 – CIMRM 1861

Monumentum

Mithras rock-birth of Trier

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

TNMM312 – CIMRM 985

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Caesarea Maritima

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

TNMM33

Monumentum

Tauroctony from Hermopolis

In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.

TNMM301 – CIMRM 91

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Housesteads

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

TNMM309 – CIMRM 852

Monumentum

Aion from Nida

This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

TNMM277

Mithraeum

Mithra temple of Marāgheh

The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.

TNMM371

Monumentum

Tauroctony found under the Palazzo Montecitorio (CIMRM 430)

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

TNMM256 – CIMRM 430

Monumentum

Aion of Hedderneheim

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

TNMM238 – CIMRM 1138

Monumentum

Cautes and Cautopates from Mithraeum III of Heddernheim

The two companions of Mithras carry a torch and a shepherd's staff at the third Mithraeum in Frankfurt-Heddernheim, formerly Nida.

TNMM408 – CIMRM 1119

Monumentum

Tauroctony from the Mithraeum III of Nida

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from Nida's Mithraeum III was found in two pieces in 1887, destroyed during an air raid on Frankfurt in 1944, and restored in 1986.

TNMM407 – CIMRM 1118

Mithraeum

Mithräum von Wiesloch

The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.

TNMM66

Monumentum

Tauroctony of the Mithraeum of Lucciana

The archeologists have found three fragments of the Tauroctony of Lucciana, which includes Cautes and Cautopates.

TNMM220

Monumentum

Lion of Les Bolards

The lion sculpture found near the entrance of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards is unique in its genre.

TNMM374 – CIMRM 921

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Aigio

The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.

TNMM360

Monumentum

Mithras rock-birth fresco of Hawarte

In one of Hawarte's frescoes, the rock birth of Mithras is preceded by Zeus and followed by the young Persian god suspended from a cypress tree.

TNMM343