The New Mithraeum Database

It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.

Only a small part of the Neuenheim Mithraeum has been excavated.

This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

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

Des rituels mystérieux, une hiérarchie gradée au sein d’un culte énigmatique, une société considérée pendant longtemps comme secrète au sein de l’Empire Romain…

Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium). Research fields: Archaeology of the Oriental cults in the Roman Empire.

Intervention par Alexandra Dardenay, maître de conférences à l'Université de Toulouse/CNRS/IUF

Intervention de Nicolas Amoroso, commissaire de l’exposition Le Mystère Mithra.

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Mithra et ses actualités - Journée d'études (17 décembre 2021) au Musée royal de Mariemont.

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

Three mithraic monuments were found in 1931, suggesting that a mithraeum probably existed in the area.

The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.

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

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

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Zadar includes a naked Sol in a quadriga.