The New Mithraeum Database

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The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

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A small bronze statuette reportedly found in Italy and now in the British Museum in London, depicting a cross-legged figure in Eastern attire (Cautopates) pointing a broken torch downwards with his right hand and holding a ram's head in his left.

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Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.

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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.

Roman Mithraic relief illustrated in figure 171 of Vermaseren’s catalogue.

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

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’.

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

Bronze head of Mithras in a radiate Phrygian cap.

"The remaining figure on this monument, Herakles, was previously misidentified as Apollo on this remarkable black basalt tablet from Samsat, known in Roman times as Samosata.

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

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.