The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.

During the excavations of 1804-1805, a series of monuments dedicated to Mithras and a temple were discovered at ancient Mons Seleucus.

This coin was deposited in the upper level of the throne in the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

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

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

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

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.

This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.

Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

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

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