The New Mithraeum Database

Intervention de Nicolas Amoroso, commissaire de l’exposition Le Mystère Mithra.

This altar, which has now disappeared, was dedicated by the slave Quintio for the health of a certain Coutius Lupus.

Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

This monument to the invincible god Mithras was inscribed on the façade of the church of Aiello deil Friuli, Aquileia.

On this slab, Gaius Iulius Propinquos indicates that he made a wall of the Mithraeum at his own expense.

This marble slab found near the Casa de Diana in Ostia bears two inscription with several names of brothers of a same community

The dedicator of this altar was a slave in the service of a high official, the prefect Gaius Antonius Rufus, known from other inscriptions.

This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.

The round relief of Mithras killing the bull of Split is surrounded by a circle with Sun, Moon, Saturn and some unusual animals.

The Mithra Temple of Maragheh, also referred to as the Mithra Temple of Verjuy or simply Mehr Temple, is the oldest surviving Mithraic temple in Iran known to date.

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

The cantharus of Trier is reminiscent of the crater that often appears in tauroctony scenes collecting the blood from the slaughtered animal.

The 'Mithraic cave' in the Gradische/Gradišče massif near St. Egidio contained vessels decorated with snakes and the remains of chicken bones and other animals that were consumed during Mithraic ceremonies.

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.

Imprint on glass of a Tauroctony exposed at Winckelmann Museum.

Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.

The article reveals the context in which the first public appearance of Mitra happened to answer two questions: who were the first people to give prominence to this deity, and for what purpose they did so.

Italian artist inspired by mythology, sacred art, and the classical world.

Those initiated into the Mithraic cult were called upon to climb up to seven symbolic rungs of the ladder ultimately leading to the rank of Pater.

Some Iranian archaeologists suggest that the carving was created by a follower of Mithraism as it depicts a simple portrayal of a human with his right hand raised and an object in his hand. But, experts say it needs much more study in order to date the pe