The New Mithraeum Database

Inscription dedicated by Caius Paulinius Iustus to the Virtus of the invincible deity within the Mithraic sanctuary.

Inscribed altar from the Friedberg Mithraeum erected by the beneficiarius consularis Caius Paulinius Iustus.

Ritual terracotta offering plate decorated with a serpent and traces of white paint from the Friedberg Mithraeum.

Lost sandstone altar or base decorated with a Phrygian cap from the speleum of the Friedberg Mithraeum.

Sandstone statuette fragment preserving the curled head of a young figure from the Mithraeum of Taunus.

Imported limestone relief fragments showing the Mithraic torchbearers beside the podia of the sanctuary.

Small marble relief of Mithras slaying the bull within a wreath decorated with zodiac signs.

Large quartzite tauroctony relief with torchbearers, zodiacal imagery and traces of ancient red paint from the Friedberg Mithraeum.

Sculpted ram’s head discovered among the finds from the supposed Mithraic sanctuary.

Decorative bronze candlestick discovered near the entrance of the supposed Mithraic sanctuary.

Fragmentary inscription possibly connected to Sol or Mithras, though attribution remains uncertain.

Mithraic altar inscription set up by the centurion Marcus Iulius Martius in 189 CE.

Decorated altar with rosettes and an inscription panel from the Mithraic sanctuary at Vetera.

Altar inscription from Sahin invoking the most high heavenly god and Mithras in the Alawite Mountains.

Amethyst intaglio engraved with Mithras slaying the bull, accompanied by Sol, Luna and other canonical Mithraic symbols.

Fragmentary tauroctony preserving Mithras, the torchbearers, Sol and Luna from the sanctuary at Aïtodor.

Corner fragment preserving the feet and lowered torch of the Mithraic torchbearer Cautopates.

Scene from a bull-slaying relief preserving the dagger of Mithras, the dog and the raised torch of Cautes.

Relief in red sandstone originally standing on a base in Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, featuring the bull-slaying scene.

Sandstone fragment from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida, probably the damaged head of a torchbearer, often misidentified as Mercury.