The New Mithraeum Database

A fragmentary inscription from Scaleby Castle near Cambeckfort (ancient Petrianae), preserving a partial dedication to Sol Mithras.

A small altar from Longovicium (modern Lancaster), bearing a brief inscription dedicated to Deus Mithras, Cautopates and Sol Invictus.

Two terracotta lamps formerly in the Coll. Passeri and now probably in the Museo Olivieri at Pesaro: the first showing Mithras as a bullkiller, the second in the shape of a bull's head inscribed Μέθρα ἱερός on the horns, both regarded as probably forged…

A square base found in 1868 near the Sardagna waterfall at San Niccolò beside the ancient Roman road in Trento (ancient Tridentum), in ground full of debris suggesting a nearby necropolis and possibly a Mithraeum.

An inscription on the altar base from the Mithraeum at Angera, recording that M. Calvius Satullio dedicated a base to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on behalf of the inhabitants of the vicus Sebuinus.

A white marble altar base from the Mithraeum at Angera, decorated with palmettes, eagles carrying a festoon and rosettes on the front, dolphins on the reverse, and on each side mythological scenes of Jupiter and Neptune combatting Giants with snake-feet.

Six small marble columns found in the Mithraeum at Angera in northern Italy: two plain-fluted, two carved with palm stems and lion's and Gorgon's heads alternating on the upper ledge, and two with serpentine coils and griffins flanking an amphora…

A fragmentary inscription on the right side of a marble slab from Tortona (ancient Dertona) in Liguria, partially legible as a dedication to Deus Sol Mithras Invictus.

Wall remnants found deep underground at San Zeno near Trento, possibly indicating a Mithraeum, discovered alongside Roman coins, lost bronze figures and a small gold disc decorated with an ear of corn or a sword.

A brief inscription reading "Deo Invicto Mithrae", found in the ruins of the Castello di Tuenno near San Zeno at the entry to the Tovel valley in Trentino, alongside the decorated relief No. 723.

Three fragments of a pottery plate bearing a relief of Mithras as bullkiller, with Cautes holding an upraised torch and sickle-shaped object and the bust of Luna above, found in the pottery workshops along the Ziegelstrasse at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica…

A fragment of a white marble head in a Phrygian cap, facing right, probably representing Mithras, with an uncertain find-spot but likely from Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica.

A scholarly note recording that finds at Heiligkreuz, including a lion's head and leg fragment, the head of a genius, and a knife with a gold handle, support the hypothesis of a Mithraeum at that location in Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica…

A collection of 284 coins, spanning from 254 to 395 AD and mostly of the fourth century, found in the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, indicating that the sanctuary was founded under the Severan dynasty and destroyed in the fourth century…

A skeleton of a man aged approximately thirty to forty years, with arms tied behind his back and wrists bound with an iron chain, found lying on a fragment of the main relief at the back of the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica…

A small terracotta lamp from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, bearing a beardless head on its upper surface and the inscription SOLI on its underside, found among numerous lamp fragments.

Numerous animal bones including birds, beasts of prey, and the muzzle of a wild boar, found as ritual deposits in the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica.

A collection of ritual vessels from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, including a stone vase, a plate with a lion's head in relief, a terra-sigillata plate with a hunting scene, and an urn filled with ash, bird bones, and rings…

A fragmentary inscription from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, recording a dedicant's gift made a second time.

Several fragmentary stone bases and altars without identifying marks, one of which has a semicircular hole in one of its sides, found in the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica.