The New Mithraeum Database

The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.

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this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

This altar is dedicated to the birth of Mithras by a frumentarius of the Legio VII Geminae.

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the largest known to date.

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

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.

Ernest Renan suggested that without the rise of Christianity, we might all have embraced the cult of Mithras. Nevertheless, it has had a lasting influence on secret societies, religious movements and popular culture.

Excerpted from Mushroom, Myth and Mithras, this passage elaborates on the Mithraic ritual and the degree of Nymphus.

This slab dedicated to the invincible god, Serapis and Isis by Claudius Zenobius was found in 1967 in the walls of the city of Astorga, Spain.

The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.

Mithraeum I in Güglingen, Landkreis Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg).

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

The remains of the Jajački Mithraeum were discovered accidentally during excavation for the construction of a private house in 1931.

This mithraic inscription in greek was found in a place called Sahin in Phoenicia.

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

The Mithraeum of Sidon may have escaped destruction because the Mithras worshippers walled up the entrance to the underground sanctuary.

The v in this small altar found in Novaria has been interpreted by some commentators as qualifying Mithras as victorious.