The New Mithraeum Database

This stele found at the foot of the Aventine bears an inscription of Kastos father and son, and mentions several syndexioi who shared the same temple.

The Tauroctony from Landenburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.

This funerary inscription, engraved on a stone urn discovered near Roman Dijon, mentions a certain Chyndonax, described as a priestly leader of Mithras.

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

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

This white marble relief depicting a lion-headed figure from Ostia is now exposed at the Musei Vaticani.

The lion-headed figure from Rusicade, now Skikda, holds a key in both hands and features a pine cone beside his feet.

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

Lenni George on Hekate’s development across ancient traditions, from mystery cults to magical practice and philosophical thought.

Limestone tauroctony relief from Carnuntum with traces of polychromy and a graffito on the bull’s neck. The inscribed base was carved separately.

From the late first century CE, Mithras spread across the Roman Empire, leaving more than 130 sanctuaries and nearly 1,000 inscriptions. This volume offers a rigorous synthesis that renews our understanding of this enigmatic cult.

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

Tercera entrega de la trilogía de Jaime Alvar dedicada al estudio de los cultos a dioses procedentes de Oriente en la Península Ibérica.