The New Mithraeum Database

Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.

This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.

The Mithraeum of Mocici was situated in a grotto at one hour's walk fomr the ancient Epidaurum.

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

The Mithraeum of Biesheim-Kunheim is located near the ancient village of Altkirch, near the Rhin.

This marble relief from Alba Iulia contains numerous scenes from the myth of Mithras.

This lion-headed marble was found on the ruins of the Alban Villa of Domitianus.

In the Mithraeum of Gross Gerau, discovered in 1989, a statue of Mercury, a lion and an altar were found.

Diana-Luna, Mercurius, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars are depicted in the mosaics on the benches of this mithraeuma.

Marble plaque with inscription of a sacerdos probatus to Sol and the god Invictus Mithras.

Epigraphic monuments reveal the presence of a Mithraeum in the ancient municiple of Carsulae, in Umbria.

In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

Sol watches Mithras as he gazes Mithras gazes up to heaven while sharing the sacred meal.

The Mithraea of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, are unique in that they represent two distinct shrines on the same site.

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

Located at the western entrance to the Palace of Darius in Persepolis, this tablet bears an inscription mentioning Ahuramazda and Mithra.