The New Mithraeum Database

Dans la longue liste des empereurs romains, Julien l'Apostat, régnant seul de 361 à 363, tient une place à part. Il doit son surnom à sa tentative de restaurer la religion païenne dans l''empire romain, à l'époque où le christianisme s'impose à t…

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae (or CIMRM) is a two volume collection of inscriptions and monuments relating primarily to the Mithraic Mysteries.

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

TNMM763

This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.

TNMM648 – CIMRM 325

The inititation of Lucius into the mysteries of Isis.

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

Pater patrorum of equestrian rank, he was a prominent figure in the Mithraic sphere in Rome.

Dedicated multiple monuments to Mithras, Fortuna Primigenia and Diana in Etruria.

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

TNMM327 – CIMRM 695, 696

Fragment of a greyish marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull beneath a rocky grotto.

TNMM1112 – CIMRM 597

This small cippus to Zeus, Helios and Serapis includes Mithras as one of the main gods, although some authors argue that it could be the name of the donor.

TNMM628 – CIMRM 463

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

TNMM670 – CIMRM 587

This Mithras killing the bull belonged to the sculptor V. Pancetti before being exhibited in the Vatican Museums under Pius VI.

TNMM208 – CIMRM 548

This relief of Mithras killing the bull, signed by a certain Χρῆστος, is on display in the Sala dei Animali of the Vatican Museum.

TNMM673 – CIMRM 554, 555

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

TNMM672 – CIMRM 586

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull is unique because of the representation of Tellus lying under the bull.

TNMM623 – CIMRM 598

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

TNMM619