The New Mithraeum Database

A limestone lion holding a flowing urn, discovered at the entrance of the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, reflects the ritual significance of water within the cult of Mithras.

The Mithraeum of Angers, excavated during a preventive operation and subsequently dismantled in 2010, yielded numerous objects, including coins, oil lamps, and a ceramic vessel bearing a votive inscription to the invincible god Mithras.

Lugdunum, currently Lyon, France, was the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. The city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus. Two emperors, Claudius and Caracalla, were born in Lugdunum.

This monument representing Cautes with uncrossed legs was consecrated by a certain Anttiocus.

Fragment of limestone from Porêts, which was used in the 4th century.

A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.

The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.

There is no consensus on the authenticity of this monument erected by a certain Secundinus in Lugdunum, Gallia.

A statue and a relief of Cautes have been found in an ancient Gallo-Roman site in the commune of Dyo.

This temple of Mithras has been discovered under the Church in Vieux-en-Val-Romey, in 1869.

Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.

The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.

This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.

The spherical ceramic cup found at the Mithraeum in Angers bears an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras.

This terracotta vase features prolific decoration, including Mithras Tauroctonos, Fortuna, Cautes, a dog and Pan playing a syrinx.

"Au cours de sondages qu'il a opere au eimetiere sud-est, Vauthier a trouve l'extremite d'un flambeau tenu par une main, dans la pose exacte des dadophores, et une main tenant entre Ie pouce et l'index une petite offrande (fruit ?…

Three fragments which form together the word: [ma]gister (Gallia, 314 and 328 No. 16d).

"Vauthier a recolte en outre un buste en marbre blanc, tres fin, de Venus, semble-t-il, une tete de divinite casquee, probablement Minerve, et plusieurs menus debris de petites tetes feminines tres mutiIees.

Red and white granite marble disc (diam. 0.70) surrounded by rays (Gallia, 312; 320 No. 48 and fig. 16).

The find of a building (D) about 30-40 mtrs S-W from the Mithraeum seem to point at a second sanctuary.