The New Mithraeum Database

The Cilician pirates incorporated significant divine feminine elements, notably Anahita, into their Mithraic practices, profoundly influencing the initiation rites within the Roman Empire.

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

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Mithraic Influence on Early Christian Symbolism and Church – Architecture

Upon first examination, archaeologists interpreted the inscription on the cult vessel from Gradishje as referencing Mithras, though it has since been re-evaluated.

This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

This monument depicts Mihr/Mithras watching over the transition of power from Shapur II to Ardashit II, which took place in 379.

This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.

Preamble and notes published by G. R. S. Mead in his series Echoes from the Gnosis 1907, London and Benares. Translation of the manuscript by Dieterich Eine Mithrasliturgie 1903, Leipzig.

Excerpted from Mushroom, Myth and Mithras, this passage elaborates on the Mithraic ritual and the degree of Nymphus.

The altars of the gods of the Sun and Moon found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim wear openwork segments that could be lighten from behind.

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

Fragments of this limestone statue include the head and torso of Mercury, holding the caduceus in his left hand.

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.