The New Mithraeum Database

The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, now on display in Stuttgart, includes a small altar with a sacrificial knife and an oil lamp.

During the excavations of 1804-1805, a series of monuments dedicated to Mithras and a temple were discovered at ancient Mons Seleucus.

The low relief of Bourg-Saint-Andéol depicting Mithras killing the bull has been chiseled on the rock.

This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

This altar was dedicated to Cautes by a certain Lucius in Baetulo (Badalona), near Barcino (Barcelona).

The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.

There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

Intervention de Richard Veymiers, directeur du Musée royal de Mariemont et Laurent Bricault, de l'Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.

A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.