The New Mithraeum Database

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.

Head formerly associated with Mithraic material but interpreted by Margarete Bieber as a dying Giant.

A badly damaged tauroctony relief carved in peperino, fixed high into a wall of the old farm known as Le Capanacce on the Via Cassia near Vicus Matrini in Etruria, showing Mithras as a bullkiller in a vaulted cave with serpent, the head and left arm of the god lost…

The altar with a Phrygian cap and a dagger from Trier was erected by a Pater called Martius Martialis.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

A subterranean room with a stucco depiction of Mithras slaying the bull, probably from the fourth century, discovered at Agurzano near Ponte Mammolo on the Via Tiburtina outside Rome.

An inscription to Sol Invictus Mithras found in the Vigna Patritii outside the Porta Pia in Rome, dedicated by Aelius Victorinus, a veteran of the emperors honourably discharged, with M. Aurelius Romulus as antistes and sacerdos of the cult.

A funerary inscription found in the Vigna Nari outside Rome in 1734, set up by Iunia Thallusa for her husband Equitius Arescon, who held the rank of pater sacrorum in the Mithraic mysteries.

A tauroctony statue once in the Collection Santa Croce near the Piazza Giudea in Rome, showing Mithras as bullkiller with a broad belt around the bull's body, the arms of the god and the bull's horns broken off.

A tauroctony relief from Rome, formerly in the Hoffmann Collection, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, with the god's pupils fashioned from white enamel and the whole piece heavily restored.

Greek inscription dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Balbillus, saved from the waters, in the presence of Bassus the priest, belonging to the Mithraic grade of Leo.

This small cippus to Zeus, Helios and Serapis includes Mithras as one of the main gods, although some authors argue that it could be the name of the donor.

This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.

Partial marble statue of Mithras as a bullkiller found near Viale Latino, about 200 meters from Porta San Giovanni.

This white marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on the Esquilino near the Church of Saint Lucy in Selci in Rome.

Upper part of a small marble column with late 2nd- or 3rd-century lettering, bearing a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras and his sodality by actors from the Forum Suarium, excavated on the Esquiline.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

Graffito on a wall of the Caseggiato del Sole adjacent to the Mitreo dei Serpenti at Ostia, reading "Dominus Sol hic avitat" (Lord Sun dwells here).