The New Mithraeum Database

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

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

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

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) 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.

This sandstone altar found in Cologne bears an inscription to the goddess Semele and her sisters.

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

This inscription reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, Greece, which has not yet been found.

This altar was dedicated by a certain Marcus Aurelius Decimus to Sol Mithras and other gods in Diana, Numibia, present Argelia.

Two Mithras sanctuaries, which were located on the edge of the settlement, were excavated in Güglingen.

This sandsotne head with a Phrygian, found in Fürth in 1730, probably belonged to a torach-bearer.

This marble slab, found in the Mithraeum of San Clemente, bears an inscription by a certain Aelius Sabinus for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.

The base of these sandstone reliefs bears an inscription referring to a certain Marcellius Marianus.

Even if only a few fragments remain, it is very likely that the main niche of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca contained the usual representation of Mithras killing the bull.

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

This inscription, found in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis, among some other monuments in Ostia, suggests a link between Mithras and Silvanus.

This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

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