The New Mithraeum Database

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.

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.

This small white marble cippus bears an inscription of a certain Pater Antoninus to Cautes.

This small monument bear the inscriptions of a certain Caelius Ermeros, antistes at the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls.

This marble slab, found in the Mithraeum of San Clemente, bears an inscription by a certain Aelius Sabinus for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.

This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.

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

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.

The mosaic bears an inscription indicating the name of the owner.

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.

In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.

A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.