The New Mithraeum Database

The altars of the gods of the Sun and Moon found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim wear openwork segments that could be lighten from behind.

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 colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

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.

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.

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.