The New Mithraeum Database

Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.

Dedicated a relief of Mithras Tauroctonos in Macerata, Italy.

In 1946 Franz Cumont wrote me: "D'apres une notice que m'a communique Richard Wiinsch en 1910, Ie Lyceum Hosianum de Braunsberg en Prusse orientale possede (ou possMait car il n'existe peut-etre plus) un basrelief de Mithra, acquis pres de Rome"…