The New Mithraeum Database

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

The altar of the Sun god belongs to the typology of the openwork altar to be illuminated from behind.

The Mithra Tauroctonos from Syracuse, Sicily, is currently on display in the city's archaeological museum.

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

The Mithraeum of Szony has the form of a grotto and the entrance is on the west side.

Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Sisak includes the zodiac and multiple scenes from the myth of Mithras.

The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

The sculpture of Aion from Florence, Italy, has the usual serpent, coiled six times on its body, whose head rests on that of the god of eternal time.

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The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

This statue of the god lion-head was found in Memphis, Egypt.

According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.

The relief of Sol was found during the construction of Piazza Dante in Rome in 1874.

In the tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze in Syria, the snake appears to be licking the head of the bull's penis.

The relief of Mithras being born from the rock of the Esquiline shows the young god naked, as usual, with a torch and a dagger in his hands.

Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.