The New Mithraeum Database

Carsulae was a Roman municipium in the region of Umbria, now preserved as an archaeological site, about 4 km north of the small town of San Gemini. Its foundation dates back to 220 BC with the construction of the Via Flaminia.

La localización de una comunidad mitraísta en San Juan de la Isla posee un notable interés, debido a la débil popularidad de este culto oriental entre las poblaciones de Hispania.

Guides, maps and additional information on the Basilica, the Mithraeum and the archaeological area of San Clemente.

Lissa-Caronna details the excavation and findings of a mithraeum beneath San Stefano Rotondo, focusing on its decor, sculptures, and rituals.

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.

TNMM421

This marble bust of Sol, found in the Mitreo di San Clemente, had five holes in the head where rays had been fixed.

TNMM738 – CIMRM 343

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

TNMM9 – CIMRM 239

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

TNMM650 – CIMRM 706

In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.

TNMM438 – CIMRM 421

The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.

TNMM448 – CIMRM 400

La Domus de Mitreo y el Centro Arqueolóxico de San Roque muestran otra cara del viejo Lugo

The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.

TNMM469 – CIMRM 339, 340

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

TNMM577

Jaime Alvar hace en este libro un estudio exhaustivo de las condiciones en las que se produce la introducción de Mitra en Hispania, a finales del siglo I d. C., en un momento sorprendentemente prematuro en relación con otras regiones del occidente latin…

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

TNMM120 – CIMRM 810, 811

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

TNMM312 – CIMRM 985

Public treasurer known for several inscriptions to Mithras found in San Silvestro.

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

TNMM584

Mithras birth from the knees upwards emerging from a rock and wearing as usual a Phrygian cap.

TNMM435 – CIMRM 344