The New Mithraeum Database

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

This remarkable Greek marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was discovered in 1705 and remained in private collections until it was bought by the Louvre.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

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

This altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Septimius Zosimus was found in the Basilica of San Martino ai Monti in Rome.

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 Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

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

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

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

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

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

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.

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

This lion-headed marble was found on the ruins of the Alban Villa of Domitianus.

This inscription found in the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres mentions the Pater Marco Aemiliio Epaphrodito known from other monuments in Ostia.

The Mithraeum of Santa Prisca houses remarkable frescoes showing the initiates in procession.