The New Mithraeum Database

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

This black marble of Mithras killing the Bull has belonged to the sculptor Carlo Albacini.

This marble statuette from Ostia depicts Cautopates lowering his torch beside a tapering rock associated with Mithras’ birth from stone.

This altar for the completion of a temple to Sol Invictus by Flavius Lucilianus was found in Fossa, Italy.

This inscription was commissioned by a family of priests of the invincible god Mithras.

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

The main fresco of the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere portrays Mithras slaughtering a white bull.

The lion-headed god is standing on a globe encicled by two crossed bands on which five pearls.

This Mithraic temple, also known as the Mithraeum of the Olympii, dates to the 3rd century and was rediscovered in 15th-century Rome, but it has not been preserved.

Roman relief from a sanctuary on the Janiculum Hill (Rome), showing a male figure bound by a serpent coiled seven times.

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

This graffito seems to be an account of offerings made by Mithras worshippers in the Cassegiato di Diana.

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

White marble statue of Lion-head god of time, formerly in the Villa Albani, nowadays in the Musei Vaticani.

The existence of a mithraeum in the "tana del lupo", a natural cave in the castle of Angera, has been assumed since the 19th century, following the discovery of two mithraic inscriptions in the town.

This unusual bronze bust of Sabazios features multiple symbolic elements, with Mithras depicted in his characteristic pose of slaying the bull, positioned just below Sabazios’ chest.

The Mithraeum of Visentium, near Capodimonte in Viterbo, was carved grotto-style into a tuff cliff overlooking the waters of Lake Bolsena, just a few dozen metres away.

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