The New Mithraeum Database

This remarkable marble relief from the end of the 3rd century was discovered in the most remote room of the Mithraeum in the Circo Massimo.

Cet ouvrage propose une étude d’ensemble du culte de Mithra en Afrique romaine. S’appuyant sur un rigoureux examen croisé des sources épigraphiques, archéologiques et littéraires, il restitue l’histoire et les spécificités de ce culte à mystères sur le sol africain…

India, beyond all other countries on the face of the earth, is preeminently the home of the worship of the Phallus—Linga puja. It has been so for ages and remains so still.

Sandstone slab from Kindenheim, Germania Superior, depicting a standing winged Aion with traces of a lion's mane on the breast and objects in both hands; the head and part of the body are damaged.

Sandstone statue from Wahlheim, Germania Superior, depicting a naked torso encircled by two serpents holding their heads towards the figure's face — the characteristic iconography of the leontocephaline Aion.

A white marble tauroctony relief found near a Roman villa on the northern slope of Mount Ciminus near Soriano nel Cimino in Etruria, showing Mithras slaying the bull with dog, serpent and scorpion, the bull's tail ending in three ears of grain, the god's resting leg abnormally small…

Sandstone relief from the Mithraeum at Gimmeldingen depicting a standing Mercury with caduceus and purse, accompanied by a ram and a cock; the head and upper caduceus are damaged.

Statue of Cautopates from Neuenheim, holding a downward torch with both hands, now in the Kurpfälzisches Museum at Heidelberg

Altar from the Mithraeum at Neuenheim dedicated to Iovi optimo maximo by Candidius Quartus

The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.

The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.

The Tauroctony relief of Neuenheim, Heidelberg, includes several scenes from the deeds of Mithras and other gods.

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

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

Marble leontocephalic Aion/Arimanus from the now-lost Fagan Mithraeum at Ostia, dedicated in AD 190 by three members of the local Mithraic priesthood.

This monument with an inscription by two individuals was found in the first mithraeum of Cologne, Germany.