The New Mithraeum Database

This white marble relief depicting a lion-headed figure from Ostia is now exposed at the Musei Vaticani.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca Tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

This sandsotne head with a Phrygian, found in Fürth in 1730, probably belonged to a torach-bearer.

This marble head of Mithras was found in the Luxemburgerstrasze in Cologne, Germany.

This head of Italian marble, found at Arles, probably belongs to a sculpure of Mithras.

This altar to Deo Invicto was found during the excavation of the Monastero Delle Benedettine di Santa Grata in Bergamo, with a bronze calf’s head on top.

This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

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

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

This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.

This fragmented altar was erected by two brothers from the Legio II Adiutrix who also built a temple.

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

This head was found at the east end of temple of Mithras in London.

The Mithras's head of Walbrook probable belonged to a life-size scene of the god scarifying the bull.

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

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

This monument was erected on the occasion of the elevation of a member to the Mithraic grade of Perses.

The altar includes a slab with an inscription for the salvation of two emperors.