The New Mithraeum Database

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

A Mithraeum was discovered in 2007, during the excavations at the Zerzevan Castle.

This unusual representation of Mithras standing on a bull was kept in the Casino di Villa Altieri sul Monte Esquilino until the 19th century.

Discovered in Memphis, Egypt, a second relief depicting Mithras killing the bull.

This white marble relief of Mithas killing the sacred bull was found embedded in the building of a noble family in Pisa.

This inscription on white marble by Lucius Gavidius uses the term ther cultores to refer to his Mithraic community in Stabiae, Italy.

Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.

These three fragments of carved marble depict Jupiter, Sol, Luna and a naked man wearing a Phrygian cap, with inscriptions calling Mithras Sanctus Dominum.

According to the inscription on it, this altar probably supported a statue of Jupiter.

The slab of the Sun god has not yet connected to Mithras.

Lors de la construction de l’église Saint-Paul en 1911, un mithraeum a été mis au jour à Königshoffen, vicus gallo-romain situé aux abords du camp légionnaire de Strasbourg-Argentorate.

The inscription reports the restoration of the coloured painting of the main relief of the Mithraeum by a veteran of the Legio VIII Augusta.

These two reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates where found in the south corner of one of the Mithraea of Friedberg, Hesse.

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

Chapter of In Search of Cyrus devoted to the origins of the Iranian god Mithra.

The Mithras killing the bull sculpture from Sidon, currently Lebanon.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

Wright’s extended essay on Phallic worship is distinguished by much better scholarship and writing than some of the other works of this genre.

This inscription to Mithras Invencible was dedicated by a certain Apronianus in 172 is currently lost.

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.