The New Mithraeum Database

This monument is the only one still available from the disappeared Mithraeum in Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite.

Roman relief from a sanctuary on the Janiculum Hill (Rome), showing a male figure bound by a serpent coiled seven times.

Founded on the east bank of the Tigris, Sumere is mentioned in Roman sources as a fortified settlement during the Persian campaign of Julian in 363 CE, notably by Ammianus Marcellinus.

This tauroctony may have come from Hermopolis and its style suggests a Thraco-Danubian origin.

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.

Statue of Cautes from Bodobrica, discovered around 1940, depicting the torchbearer standing before a tree or rock and associated with a bucranium.

Triangular marble slab (H. 0.39 Br. 0.30 D. 0.03), found in the Forum of Nerva.

Small triangular slab bearing a Latin inscription referring to Sol Invictus and to a sacred cave, probably dating to the 4th century AD.

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

The Mithraic vase from Ballplatz in Mainz depicts seven figures arranged in two narrative sequences, commonly interpreted in relation to initiation rites.

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

In polemical passages from the late second and early third centuries, Tertullian portrays the cult of Mithras as a demonic imitation of Christian rites and provides rare early references to Mithraic initiation and ritual symbolism.

The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.

Antium was an ancient coastal settlement in Latium, founded around the 11th century BC. A major stronghold of the Volsci before its conquest by Rome, its territory largely corresponds to modern Anzio and Nettuno.

Trabzon is a historic city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey, founded in 756 BC as Trapezous by Greek colonists from Miletus. It passed from Achaemenid control to the Kingdom of Pontus, then became part of the Roman and Byzantine empires.

Standing stone statuette of Cautopates, the downward-torch bearer, found at Bordeaux and kept in the city’s museum of antiquities (musée d’Aquitaine ?).

The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.