The New Mithraeum Database

Representation of a person lying prostrate on the ground between two other walking figures on the Mitreo of Santa Capua Vetere.

The inscription pays homage to the emperor, probably Caracalla, to Mithras, the fathers, the petitor and the syndexioi.

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

Altar of Varia Severa from Mediolanum, modern Milan, one of the few women associated with a possible Mithraic dedication.

A votive altar dedicated to Deus Invictus Mithras by Paterna, among the few women explicitly associated with Mithraic worship.

Altar from Vratnik near Senia, Dalmatia, dedicated to Soli invicto Mithrae by Faustus, slave of Tiberius Saturninus, for himself and his family.

The son of an eponymous person, he consecrated an altar to Helios Mithras in Kreta, Moesia inferior.

This altar bears an inscription to the health of the emperor Commodus by a certain Marcus Aurelius, his father and two other fellows.

Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

Marble revetment inscription from the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis recording a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by the priest Florius Hermadio for the welfare of two emperors.

Carved directly into the rock of the Rožanec sanctuary, this tauroctony relief preserves an unusually complete composition.

Small marble base, found in one of the private houses along the Via Sacra nearly opposite to the Basilica of Constantine, Rome.

Roman emperor whose ceremonial reception of Tiridates I of Armenia established one of the earliest recorded links between Mithras and the Roman imperial court.

This altar found in Benifaió, València, was erected by a slave called Lucanus.

Gessius Castus and Gessius Severus have placed a decorated stutue and left testimony on this inscription below.

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.