The New Mithraeum Database

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

TNMM584

Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

TNMM585

The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.

TNMM242 – CIMRM 773, 774

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

TNMM338 – CIMRM 793

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.

TNMM427 – CIMRM 795

The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.

TNMM181 – CIMRM 777

The Isis of Merida is covered by a long dress that reaches down to her feet.

TNMM424

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

TNMM421

This scene of a feast from Mérida shows three persons at a table with other people standing beside them, one holding a bull’s head on a plate.

TNMM300 – CIMRM 782

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

TNMM241 – CIMRM 776

The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.

TNMM394 – CIMRM 780, 781

The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

TNMM428 – CIMRM 778, 779

This standing sculptural figure from Mérida appears to carry the serpent staff, characteristic of the medicine god Aesculapius.

TNMM425 – CIMRM 786

The Venus pudica of Merida stands next to the young Amor riding a dolplhin.

TNMM423 – CIMRM 784

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

TNMM426 – CIMRM 796

This lost monument bears an inscription to Cautes by a certain Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus.

TNMM560 – CIMRM 797

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

TNMM429 – CIMRM 785

This sculpture may be a naked dadophorus, probably Cautopates.

TNMM243 – CIMRM 775

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

TNMM244