The New Mithraeum Database

The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

Archaeologists discovered the 20th temple dedicated to Mithras in Ostia during the restoration of the domus del capitello di stucco in 2022.

Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).

A standing half naked man makes offerings to an altar while holding a cornucopia in his other hand.

In this 4th-century Roman altar, the senator Rufius Caeionius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

This oolite base, dedicated to the invincible Mithras, was found in the baths of the Villa de Caerleon, Walles.

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

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

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

This primitive relief of Mithras as a bullkiller is signed by a certain Valerius Marcelianus.

The provenance of this fragment of a white marble relief depicting Mithras as a bullkiller is unknown.

This damage relief of Mithras killing the bull was found walled into a house near Split, Croatia.

Three larger altars and other finds from the Mithraeum of Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.

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