The New Mithraeum Database

Epigraphic monuments reveal the presence of a Mithraeum in the ancient municiple of Carsulae, in Umbria.

In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

This enigmatic fresco on top of the main tauroctony shows Mithras killing the bull, accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates, surrounded by burning altars and cypress trees.

Sol watches Mithras as he gazes Mithras gazes up to heaven while sharing the sacred meal.

The Mithraea of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, are unique in that they represent two distinct shrines on the same site.

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

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

This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.

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 Mithras killing the Bull relief from Memphis, Egypt, it is preserved in the Museum of Cairo.

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.

This limestone altar bears an inscription from its donor, Firmidius Severinus, in honour of Mithras after 26 years of service in the Legio VIII Augusta.

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.

Several fragmentary Mithraic remains dedicated by a certain Agatho in the Caelius suggest that a Mithraeum existed in the area.

This marble relief bears an inscription by Marcus Modius Agatho, who dedicated several monuments to Mithras on the Caelian Hill in Rome.

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.