The New Mithraeum Database

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

The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.

This scene of a feast from Mérida shows three persons at a table with other people standing beside them, one holding a bull’s head on a plate.

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

Jaime Alvar speculates that the Gran Mitreo de Mérida could have been located in this area, based on a series of materials unearthed by Mélida during the excavations of 1926 and 1927.

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

The sculpture of Oceanus in Merida bears an inscription by the Pater Patrorum Gaius Accius Hedychrus.

This standing sculptural figure from Mérida appears to carry the serpent staff, characteristic of the medicine god Aesculapius.

The Venus pudica of Merida stands next to the young Amor riding a dolplhin.

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

This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

A small marble fragment from Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) bearing the fragmentary inscription (S)arapi(s), attesting to the veneration of Sarapis in proximity to the Mithraic sanctuary.

A marble statuette found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1902, representing a seated deity whose head, arms and feet are lost, tentatively identified as Jupiter-Serapis.

Sculptural fragments from the Mithraeum at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida), comprising a naked foot beside tree-trunk remnants and fragments of a marble seat or table decorated with an acanthus-leaf from which emerge the head and neck of a lion.

A marble statue from Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida), depicting a standing woman in a long chiton, now in the museum at Mérida, with head lost.

A marble statue found at Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida) in 1913, depicting a standing woman in a long chiton, now in the museum at Mérida, with head lost.

A marble statue from Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida), depicting a standing dressed male person whose right leg leans against a tree-trunk and whose raised right arm once held a lance or trident, tentatively identified as Poseidon.

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.