The New Mithraeum Database

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.

This sculpture of Mithras killing the sacred bull bears an inscription that mentions the donors.

The Mithraeum of Aquincum I existed in the potter's quarter of the ancient city of Budapest.

The Cautopates with scorpion found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa includes an inscription of a certain slave known as Synethus.

The rock of Mithra's birth in the Petrogenia of Sarmizegetusa is surrounded by a snake.

Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

The Mithraeum of Pamphylia was cut back into the rock to form a cave, with a separate relief of Mithras killing the bull.

The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.