The New Mithraeum Database

Fragment of a greyish marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull beneath a rocky grotto.

The Mithraeum of Saara, Syria, has been identified through the deciphering of the remains of the iconographic programme on its arch.

Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

There is no solid evidences of the finding of a Mithraic temple in Duhok, Iraq.

The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.

Fresco of Mithras found in an arched niche above the right bench of the Baths of Caracalla’s Mithraeum in Rome.

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.

Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.

Fresco depicting an initiation scene from the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere.

White marble statue of Mithras killing the sacred bull preserved in the Museo Nacional Romano.

Lion-head god with traces of red paint found in Rome.

Marble relief, probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli.

White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.

Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.

Around the niche of the Dura Europos Mithraeum fragments of a series of small paintings set in a semicircular band of panels were found.

Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

Exploring religion, rituals, archaeological insights, and historical impact of the Cult of Mithras in the Danubian provinces.

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.