The New Mithraeum Database

Alexander the Great seized Sidon from the Persians in 333 BC. It became a Roman colony during the reign of Elagabalus.

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

The Hekataion of Sidon, which depicts Hekate in her trimorphic form surrounded by three dancing girls, is the only example found to date in connection with the Mithraic cult.

Cautopates sculpture of Sidon features a snake near his left leg.

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

The Mithras killing the bull sculpture from Sidon, currently Lebanon.

There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

The Sidon sculpture includes a dog jumping between Cautes's legs.

Les monuments mithriaques sont rares en Syrie. Les sculptures de Sidon, datées de 188, constituent l’essentiel de la documentation malgré des incertitudes sur leur origine exacte.

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

The Cautes of Sidon who wields an axe also wears a piece of cloth on his left arm.

In this case, a quiver has been attached to the tree-stump behind the torchbearer.

Pater nominos in Sidon, he consecrated a number of sculptures, including a Hecataion.

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

Sculpture depicting Mithras carrying a young bull on his shoulders.