The New Mithraeum Database

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

Des rituels mystérieux, une hiérarchie gradée au sein d’un culte énigmatique, une société considérée pendant longtemps comme secrète au sein de l’Empire Romain…

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.

Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium). Research fields: Archaeology of the Oriental cults in the Roman Empire.

Intervention par Alexandra Dardenay, maître de conférences à l'Université de Toulouse/CNRS/IUF

This marble gives some details of the reconstruction of the Virunum Mithraeum.

Intervention de Nicolas Amoroso, commissaire de l’exposition Le Mystère Mithra.

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Mithra et ses actualités - Journée d'études (17 décembre 2021) au Musée royal de Mariemont.

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.

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.

The Mitreo dei Castra Peregrinorum was discovered under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome.

The Mithraeum of Aquincum I existed in the potter's quarter of the ancient city of Budapest.

A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.

The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.

The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.