The New Mithraeum Database

Musée Saint-Raymond, musée d'Archéologie de Toulouse, associate curator of the exhibition Le mystère Mithra, plongée au cœur d'un culte romain.

In the tauroctonic relief on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Mithras slaughters the bull over a rocky background.

We propose to revisit a passage by the prolific author Marteen Vermaseren that highlights correspondences today forgotten between the Roman Mithras and its Eastern counterparts.

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

The exhibition The Mystery of Mithras opens at the Mariemont Museum in Belgium, home of Franz Cumont, the father of studies on the solar god.

Three European museums celebrate Mithras with a continental exhibition featuring more than 200 works of art from Roman times to the present day.

Fragment of limestone from Porêts, which was used in the 4th century.

This monument representing Cautes with uncrossed legs was consecrated by a certain Anttiocus.

A limestone lion holding a flowing urn, discovered at the entrance of the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, reflects the ritual significance of water within the cult of Mithras.

Philippe Roy, docteur en Sciences de l’Antiquité, présente dans cette vidéo la réception du culte de Mithra dans les provinces occidentales de l’Empire romain.

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

Mouth of a fountain (H. 0.10 Br. 0.09) and a square spout and other fragments of round spouts.

Fragments of a bronze vase (H. 0.07) with two ears, one of which is broken off.

Two fragments of a bronze statuette.

Cylindrical bronze peg (diam. 0.18) with a lion's head in the middle.

Bronze statuette (H. 0.12 Br. 0.17) with the representation of a lion with opened mouth, in which is a hole, connecting with another hole, made in the stomach.