The New Mithraeum Database

Thinking of forming a weekly group for those in the Anglosphere(USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ) to have a webcam call, discuss all things related to Mithras and form friends sharing a niche interest:)

Several figures related to the Mysteries of Mithras are depicted on the mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Animals.

This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.

This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

This marble relief of Cautes was found in 1863 in Sisak, Croatia.

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

Beheaded Cautopates in limestone found on the podium of the Jajce Mithraeum, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.