The New Mithraeum Database

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.

The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.

This remarkable marble relief from the end of the 3rd century was discovered in the most remote room of the Mithraeum in the Circo Massimo.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

Votive sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull from the Mithraeum of Tarquinia.