The New Mithraeum Database

This marble slab, found in the Mithraeum of San Clemente, bears an inscription by a certain Aelius Sabinus for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.

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

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

This unusual mural depicting Mithras killing the bull was found near the Colosseum in 1668.

This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

This is one of the three reliefs of Mithras as a bullkiller from the Villa Borghese collection that belong to the Louvre museum, now in the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

This column found in the Mithraeum of Sarmizegetusa bears an inscription to Nabarze instead of Mithras.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

This simple relief of Mithras killing the bull without his companions Cautes and Cautopates was found in the so-called Mithraeum of the Esquilino, Rome.

This monument bears an inscription by a certain Lucius Aelius Hylas, in which he associates Sol Invictus with Jupiter.

The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.

This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

Second Mithraic monument dedicated by the Kastos family, found not far from the Arco di S. Lazzaro, in Rome.

This unusual representation of Mithras standing on a bull was kept in the Casino di Villa Altieri sul Monte Esquilino until the 19th century.

These three fragments of carved marble depict Jupiter, Sol, Luna and a naked man wearing a Phrygian cap, with inscriptions calling Mithras Sanctus Dominum.