The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

The sculpture of Mithras carrying the bull includes an inscription on its base.

This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.

Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.

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

The Barberini Mithraeum was discovered in 1936 in the garden of the Palazzo Barberini, owned by Conte A. Savorgnan di Brazza.

Antiochus I of Commagene shakes Mithras hands in this relief from the Nemrut Dagi temple.

This ancient carnelian intaglio mounted in gold depicts Mithras slaying the bull surrounded by his companions Cautes and Cautopates.

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

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

The Mithraeum of Lucretius Menander was installed in the early 3rd century in an alley to the east of a Hadrianic building named after the solar god temple.

There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

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

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

This sculpture of Mithras killing the sacred bull bears an inscription that mentions the donors.