The New Mithraeum Database

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.

According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

The v in this small altar found in Novaria has been interpreted by some commentators as qualifying Mithras as victorious.

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

The floor mosaic of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres, which gives its name to the temple, depicts a dagger.

In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

This lost monument bears an inscription to Cautes by a certain Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus.

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

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

Lors de la construction de l’église Saint-Paul en 1911, un mithraeum a été mis au jour à Königshoffen, vicus gallo-romain situé aux abords du camp légionnaire de Strasbourg-Argentorate.

The relief of naked Roman soldier, wearing a mantle and a Phrygian cap, has been related to the Mithras' cult.

In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.