The New Mithraeum Database

The Macerata Tauroctony shows Mithra slaying the bull with the usual Pyrigian cap and six rays around his head.

The Mithraeum near Porta Romana was connected to a Sacello, but the door was blocked.

The name of the Mithraeum of the Seven Gates refers to the doors depicted in the mosaic that decorates the floor, symbolising the seven planets through which the souls of the initiates have to pass.

The Mithraeum of Vulci is remarkable because of his high benches and the arches below them.

This relief was found under the Palazzo Montecitorio, in Rome, and bought by the Liebighaus at Frankfort.

The marble shows Mithras slaying the bull, on one side, and Sol and Mithras feasting on a bull skin, on the other.

The head was part of a stucco relief of the Tauroctony found under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome

This small altar found in Rome depicts the god Sol with five rays around his head.

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.

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

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

This Mithraic temple, now disappeared, is known thanks to the numerous remains recorded since 1594 in the 'Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma'.