The New Mithraeum Database

The inscription reports the restoration of the coloured painting of the main relief of the Mithraeum by a veteran of the Legio VIII Augusta.

This is one of the few known Mithraic inscriptions dedicated by a member who attained the grade of Perses.

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The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.

The Mithraeum of Aldobrandini was excavated in 1924 by G. Calza on the premises belonging to the Aldobrandini family.

This marble base found in Angera in 1868 bears the inscription of two people who reached the degree of Leo.

The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.

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

Small arula with mithraic inscription and dedication to Cautes from a garlic merchant.

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

This altar bears the oldest known Latin inscription to the god Mithras, written Mitrhe.

The image of the god Arimanius to which this monument refers has not yet been found.

These two parallel altars to the diophores were dedicated by the Pater and a Leo from the Mithraeum of S. Stefano Rotondo.

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

The head of Serapis found at Walbrook, London, is decorated with stylised olive branches.

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.

This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.