The New Mithraeum Database

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.

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

This painting depicts an Iranian knight holding in a chain a black naked figure with two heads.

The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.