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The New Mithraeum Database

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Tauroctony from the Mitreo delle terme di Mitra

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

 
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Frescoes with standing figures of Mitreo delle Pareti Dipinte

The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

 
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Frescoes of lions at Santa Prisca

Procession of Leones carrying animals, bread, a krater, and other objects in preparation for a feast.

 
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CIMRM 635

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

 
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Mitreo de Lugo

The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.

 
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Tauroctony from Absalmos

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

 
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Two figures relief from Via Zanardelli

Marble relief, probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli.

 
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Terra sigillata bowl depicting the Mithraic cult meal from Trier

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

 
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Two-sided relief from Konjic

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

 
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The Acosolium of the Mysteries in the Hypogeum of Vibia

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

 
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The Mysteries of Mithras

The Mysteries of Mithras is an independent Initiatic Order which is inspired by and uses the allegory of the lost and ancient Mithraic Mysteries also known as Mithraism a previously influential Roman Cult of the same name.

 
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Sabazios with Mithras from Bolsena

This unusual bronze bust of Sabazios features multiple symbolic elements, with Mithras depicted in his characteristic pose of slaying the bull, positioned just below Sabazios’ chest.

 
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Mithraic relief of Baris

The Mithraic relief from Baris, in present-day Turkey, shows what appears to be a proto-version of the Tauroctony, with a winged Mithras surrounded by two Victories.

 
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Mithraic vase of Mühltal

The Mühltal Mithraic crater was discovered among the artefacts of a mithraeum found in Pfaffenhoffen am Inn, Bavaria.

 
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Tauroctony from Osterburken

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

 
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Tauroctony from the Mithräum von Heddernheim

This relief is so well-known that it has been reproduced in nearly every handbook of archaeology and of history of religions.

 
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Tauroctony from Dragus

The tauroctonic relief from Dragus includes a naked flying figure that Vermaseren has identified as Phosporus or Lucifer.

 
Video

Jesus or Mithras? by Dr. Reza Assasi - ACSF 2023 - New York City

Mithraic Influence on Early Christian Symbolism and Church – Architecture

 
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Two-sided relief from Rückingen

This remarkable double-sided relief depicts the myth of Mithras and the Tauroctony on one side, and a scene of Mithras the hunter and the banquet of Mithras and the Sol on the other.

 
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Mitreo delle Sette Sfere

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

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