The New Mithraeum Database

Only a small part of the Neuenheim Mithraeum has been excavated.

The Mithraeum of Osterburken could not be excavated bodily owing to the water of a well in the immediate neighbourhood. The monument had been covered carefully with sand.

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.

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

As usual, the solar god rises a dagger with one of his hands while emerges from the rock.

Mithras Petrogenitus, born from the rock, from the Mithraeum of Carnuntum III.

A place of worship for the Roman god of light Mithras was discovered during archaeological excavations in Trier. This includes a larger relief.

Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años…

Did Apuleius explain his very own initiation into the Mysteries of Mithras in The Golden Ass? Apuleius' The Golden Ass is one of the most famous and entertaining novels of antiquity. Among his adventures, Lucius is initiated into the mysteries of Isis…

An unusual feature of this very ancient relief is that Cautopates carries a cockerel upside down, while Cautes carries it right-side up.

The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.

A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

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The archaeology of the Rudchester Mithraeum

The archaeology of the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh

Musée Saint-Raymond, musée d'Archéologie de Toulouse, associate curator of the exhibition Le mystère Mithra, plongée au cœur d'un culte romain.

The Digital Atlas of Roman Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces (DAS) is the first comprehensive and open access representation of sacralised spaces in the area.

The Mithraeum of Koenigsbrunn is the only one preserved in the ancient Roman province of Rhaetia, current Bavaria.

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

During the excavations of 1804-1805, a series of monuments dedicated to Mithras and a temple were discovered at ancient Mons Seleucus.