The New Mithraeum Database

This altar to Deo Invicto was found during the excavation of the Monastero Delle Benedettine di Santa Grata in Bergamo, with a bronze calf’s head on top.

TNMM676 – CIMRM 710

The inscription is above a procession of men carrying animals, bread, a crater and other objects that appear to be in preparation for a feast.

TNMM498 – CIMRM 481, 482

The intarsium of Sol found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca is composed of several varieties of marble.

TNMM385

The fraternal order that focussed on the worship of the ancient Iranian god Mithra was probably formed in Iran, Armenia, and Pontus (the southern coastal region of the Black Sea in eastern Anatolia, present-day Turkey). Travelers and colonists from theseS…

W. Vollgraff, Une inscription gravée sur un vase cultuel mithriaque. Extrait de : Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afd. Letterkunde. Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 18, N° 8, pp. 205-218, 2 figg. et 1 pi. Prix : 1,25 fl. Un ré…

Several iron fragments found in the second mithraeum of Güglingen may have been used during mithraic ceremonies.

TNMM377

The vessel to burn incense from the Mithraeum of Dieburg is similar to those found in other Roman cities of Germany.

TNMM409 – CIMRM 1269

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

TNMM675 – CIMRM 692

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

TNMM575 – CIMRM 113, 114

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

TNMM376