The New Mithraeum Database

The floor mosaic of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres, which gives its name to the temple, depicts a dagger.

Only a fragment of this marble group of Mithras killing the bull remains.

Marble plaque with inscription of a sacerdos probatus to Sol and the god Invictus Mithras.

Epigraphic monuments reveal the presence of a Mithraeum in the ancient municiple of Carsulae, in Umbria.

In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

Sol watches Mithras as he gazes Mithras gazes up to heaven while sharing the sacred meal.

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

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

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

Second Mithraic monument dedicated by the Kastos family, found not far from the Arco di S. Lazzaro, in Rome.

This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.

This unusual representation of Mithras standing on a bull was kept in the Casino di Villa Altieri sul Monte Esquilino until the 19th century.

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

These three fragments of carved marble depict Jupiter, Sol, Luna and a naked man wearing a Phrygian cap, with inscriptions calling Mithras Sanctus Dominum.

Several fragmentary Mithraic remains dedicated by a certain Agatho in the Caelius suggest that a Mithraeum existed in the area.

According to the inscription on it, this altar probably supported a statue of Jupiter.

The lion-headed marble from Muti's gardens has a serpent entwined in four coils around his body.

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

The Mithras killing the bull sculpture from Sidon, currently Lebanon.