The New Mithraeum Database

Partial relief of a Giant with snake-feet found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca.

Lion-head god with traces of red paint found in Rome.

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

White marble relief depicting Mithras killing the bull, found broken in two parts in 1872 near Salita delle Tre Pile in Rome.

White marble statue of Cautopates found in Rome.

This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.

This is the first known inscription that includes Phanes alongside Mithras found in a Mithraic context.

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.

This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

This marble monument was dedicated in Rome by the slave Fructus and his son Myro.

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.

This marble plaque was made by a Pater and priest Lucius Septimius Archelaus of Mithras for him, his wife and his freedmen and freedwomen.

In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

The Caernarfon candelabrum is a reconstruction of several iron pieces found in the Mithraeum of Caernarfon.

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull, which belongs to the Louvre Museum, is currently on display in Varsovia.

The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull slayer was found in the back room of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus.