The New Mithraeum Database

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, notable for a three-headed serpent and a dog attempting to lick the blood; the bull's tail ends in three corn-ears.

Left upper corner of a marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Jupiter with the thunderbolt in his raised right hand, identified as a scene from the Battle against the Giants.

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the upper part of Cautopates supporting his head with his left hand in a pensive attitude.

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting a standing woman holding her right hand above an altar and a palm branch in her left; the lower body and base are lost.

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting a person in Oriental dress with outstretched right arm holding a small fruit basket in his left hand — probably a fragment of the sacred repast scene.

Marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, showing a grotto scene in which Cautopates holds the torch downward against the rocky ground and supports his head with his left hand in a pensive attitude; the upper left corner preserves a bust of Sol.

Small marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, depicting Mithras killing the bull in a grotto, notable for the unusually elongated neck of the bull; dog and serpent approach the wound, and the raven perches above.

Three Italian marble fragments from the Zollfeld at Virunum, Noricum, forming a tauroctony relief; the iconography is well preserved and the use of imported Italian marble reflects the high status of the dedicants.

Rocky base from the Mithraeum at Neuenheim probably originally supporting a representation of Mithras' rock-birth

Fragment of a white sandstone tauroctony relief from Mainz, ancient Mogontiacum, found reused in the wall of a house in 1864

Group of sandstone relief fragments from Rückingen depicting multiple deities including a male head identified as Hercules

Sandstone Mithras relief discovered in 1950 near Rückingen, proving the existence of a Mithraeum there from the late second to early third century AD

Fragments of a white marble arched tauroctony from Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, showing Mithras killing the bull in a leaf wreath

Fragment of a statuette on a sandstone base found in Mithraeum III at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, formerly in the Häberlin collection

Red sandstone statue of a lying lion with a hollow channel running through its body, from Mithraeum II at Heddernheim, ancient Nida

Basalt relief from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, featuring a depiction of the goddess Epona, found in a Mithraic context

Sandstone relief from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, depicting a standing Minerva resting her left hand on a shield while holding a lance

Assemblage of altars, lamps, coins and ritual objects discovered in the sanctuary.

This sculpture from Dobrosloveni, Romania, depicts the petrogenesis of Mithras, with a hole through the generative rock from which water flowed.

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