The New Mithraeum Database

Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.

Solis invicti Mithrae studiosus astrologiae who was at the same time ’caelo devotus et astris’.

The Sárkeszi mithraeum is unusual for its large dimensions and its semicircular eastern wall.

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.

The assumed find-place of the Mithras Tauroctonus of Palermo is uncertain.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

This second altar discovered to date near Inveresk includes several elements unusual in Mithraic worship.

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres was discovered in 1802 by Petirini by order of Pope Pius VII.

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

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.

The concluding book of Apuleius’ Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses), where Lucius, the story’s protagonist, undergoes initiation into the mysteries of Isis and Osiris.

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.