The New Mithraeum Database

Stela dedicated to Mithras Invictus, found in 1895–1896 at Epamantodurum (modern Mandeure), in the territory of the civitas Sequanorum (Gallia Belgica). The inscription records a vow to Mithras Invictus made for the welfare of Sextus Maenius Pudens.

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

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

At the entrance to the Mithraeum of the Seven Sferes, Cautopates holds the torch with both hands and Cautes holds the torch in his right hand and a cock in his left.

This enigmatic fresco on top of the main tauroctony shows Mithras killing the bull, accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates, surrounded by burning altars and cypress trees.

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

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.

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

Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

Around the niche of the Dura Europos Mithraeum fragments of a series of small paintings set in a semicircular band of panels were found.

An inscription by a certain Aurelius Rufinus reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, but it has not yet been found.

The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it’s the latest know and used.

This small golden figurine seems to represent the Mithraic god Aion, as usual surrounded by a serpent.

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.