The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.

Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

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

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Des rituels mystérieux, une hiérarchie gradée au sein d’un culte énigmatique, une société considérée pendant longtemps comme secrète au sein de l’Empire Romain…

This monument dedicated to 'Invicto Patrio' was found in Milan in 1869.

Marble group of Dionysus accompanied by a Silenus on a donkey, a satyr and a menead.

Dutch historian, born in 1918 and deceased in 1985. He was a specialist in the history of religions, especially the Eastern cults in the Roman Empire. A prolific writer, best known for his Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae.

This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.

The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.

Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium). Research fields: Archaeology of the Oriental cults in the Roman Empire.

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

This marble gives some details of the reconstruction of the Virunum Mithraeum.

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

This painting depicts an Iranian knight holding in a chain a black naked figure with two heads.

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.