The New Mithraeum Database

Two sandstone fragments from Mithraeum III at Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, comprising a base with one leg and a downward torch, and a Phrygian-capped head of Cautopates; probably stood at the beginning of the benches alongside the Cautes statue.

Two sandstone fragments from Mithraeum III at Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, belonging to a torchbearer statue probably of Cautes, comprising a Phrygian-capped head with painted eyes and a body fragment; the statues probably stood at the beginning of the benches…

Marble statue from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, depicting a standing youth with a large mantle draped over his left shoulder and arm; head, right arm, and most of the legs are lost.

Inscription from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, recording the restoration of a collapsed Mithraic spelaeum by Caius, identified only by the first three letters of his name; whether dedicated to Deo invicto or Soli invicto is disputed.

Marble stele from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, tapering towards the top and bearing a square hollow with five nail-holes designed to hold a small silver plaque — the plaque was removed, perhaps taken by the Mithraists themselves.

Barbara-stone pedestal from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with a hollow and three attachment holes in the top indicating that a votive object was originally fixed to it.

Marble statuette from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Cautes raising the torch with both hands; head, right hand, and lower legs are lost.

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting a standing woman holding her right hand above an altar and a palm branch in her left; the lower body and base are lost.

Terracotta statuette from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with yellow-painted garments; the piece was not recovered during the author's visit and may be lost.

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting a person in Oriental dress with outstretched right arm holding a small fruit basket in his left hand — probably a fragment of the sacred repast scene.

Fragmentary inscription from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, recording a dedication to Deo invicto Mithrae by Titus Flavius Restutus, IIIIvir Augustalis of the Colonia Poetovionis.

Marble altar fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated by a tabularius et vilicus of the statio Confluentes, a customs station at the junction of Pannonia Inferior and Moesia.

Marble statue on base from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting the naked Mithras entwined by a serpent as he emerges from the rock; the breast is damaged, and the head and arms are lost.

Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, distinguished by the bull represented with fully stretched legs; Cautopates is shown resting his head on his hand in a pensive posture.

White marble altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, decorated below the inscription with the dressed bust of Cautopates, a palm between two ram's heads above, and busts of Mithras on both lateral faces.

White marble votive altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, distinguished by a dressed bust of Cautes emerging from foliage below the inscription — an unusual iconographic feature for an altar.

White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, bearing a dressed bust of Sol on the left lateral face and an inscription recording a dedication related to the Mithraic transit ritual.

Marble altar with akroteria from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Invicto Mithrae by Festus, vicarius of Primus, vilicus of the publicum portorium.

Conglomerate statue from a layer of fire debris in the Mithraeum at Schachadorf, Noricum, depicting a naked Mithras without Phrygian cap being born from the rock with upraised hands; a coiling serpent is visible below.

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