The New Mithraeum Database

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

This painting depicts an Iranian knight holding in a chain a black naked figure with two heads.

The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.

This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.

This altar, which has now disappeared, was dedicated by the slave Quintio for the health of a certain Coutius Lupus.

The floor of the central aisle of the Mithraeum of the Footprint in Ostia has a mosaic depicting a snake and a footprint.

A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.

Marcus Valerius Maximus records in this inscription his knowledge of astrology as well as the name of his wife.

The Mithraeum of Mainz, was discovered outside the Roman legionary fortress. Unfortunately the site was destroyed without being recorded.

The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.