The New Mithraeum Database

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.

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

This marble of Cautes was found together with his partner Cautopates in Ostia in 1939.

The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.