The New Mithraeum Database

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

There are references to two places of worship from Dieburg, whereby the Mithraeum, discovered in 1926.

There is no consensus as to whether the altar of the slave Adiectus from Carnuntum is dedicated to a Mithras genitor of light.

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

Aelius Nigrinus dedicated this small altar in Carnuntum to the rock from which Mithras was born.

A certain Secundinus, steward of the emperor, dedicated this altar to Mithras in Noricum, today Austria.

This inscription on an antique funeral urn mentions a certain high priest of Mithras.

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull found in Dormagen is exposed at Bonn Landesmuseum.

The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

This unusual mosaic representation of the god Silvanus was found in the Mithreaum of the so-called Imperial Palace in Ostia.