The New Mithraeum Database

Limestone low-relief depicting Cautopates standing cross-legged in eastern dress, accompanied by a bull, flowing water from an overturned jar and a crescent from Bolognia.

Greek graffiti scratched on wall plaster, recording a list of everyday expenses from Dura-Europos, Roman Syria.

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.

Marble inscription recording the dedication of a cult image to the unconquered Mithras by a certain pater Valerius Marinus from Rome.

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras’s birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

Fragmentary relief corner depicting Mithras as bull-slayer, preserving the bull’s hindquarters, scorpion, serpent and part of a torchbearer, with a partial inscription.

Head, possibly of Mithras, wearing a Phrygian cap, found in the bed of the Millicri River, near Locri, Calabria.

Mithras being born from the rock (petrogenia), acquired in Rome and formerly kept in Berlin.

This fragmentary relief depicts Mithras killing the bull in the usual manner, remarkably dressed in oriental attire.

The Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Clemente made part of a notable Roman house.

This tauroctony relief is distinguished by the rare depiction of Tellus reclining beneath the bull.

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

Reperta in ascensu Capitolii.

The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

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Mithras and other oriental gods were worshipped in the shrine of Zeus near the Villa of the Quintilians in Rome.

Fragment of a marble relief (H. 0.27 Br. 0.38 D. 0.045).

In this terracotta relief depicting Mithras as a bull killer found at Cales, now in Calvi Risorta, none of the usual accompanying animals is present.

Second terracotta tablet found at Calvi depicting Mithras killing the bull, now at Berlin, Antiquarium.