The New Mithraeum Database

Bronze head (H. 0.05).

TNMM1229 – CIMRM 760

This is a reconstruction of the 2nd level initiation, the Nymphus or male bride.

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Presentation of the so-called Mithraeum of Burham by Mark Samuel at the Ordinary Meeting of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Presentation on the Dionysian-themed frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries by Peter Mark Adams on the occasion of the presentation of his book.

Classical history master’s student at Birkbeck College, University of London

An author writing a novel on Mithras

Bronze statuette of Mithras in his characteristic bull-slaying pose, though only the god has been preserved.

TNMM1111 – CIMRM 595

Lead.

TNMM109

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana ’by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra’.

TNMM127 – CIMRM 7

This votive silver plaque depicting Mithras was found at the site of Pessinus, Ballıhisar, in Turkey.

TNMM770

This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

TNMM769 – CIMRM 2361

Marble fragment with an inscription (ILN 1954,636).

TNMM1259 – CIMRM 826

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

TNMM132 – CIMRM 506

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

TNMM164 – CIMRM 593, 594

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

TNMM195 – CIMRM 822, 823