The New Mithraeum Database

This altar found at ancient Burginatum is the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the continent.

TNMM507

The dedicant of this altar to the god Arimanius was probably a slave who held the grade of Leo.

TNMM403 – CIMRM 1773

Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.

TNMM304

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the biggest known, together with the Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla.

TNMM31

The lack of attributes and its decontextualisation prevent us from attributing a specific Mithraic attribution to this small Venus pudica from Mérida.

TNMM429 – CIMRM 785

The Dunaújváros Mithraeum was discovered in 1973.

TNMM345

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

TNMM303

The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

TNMM404

This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.

TNMM246 – CIMRM 835

This relief of Mithras killing the bull in a vaulted grotto lacks the usual scorpion pinching the bull's testicles.

TNMM662 – CIMRM 2257