The New Mithraeum Database

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.

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

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

After Christianity was adopted, most pagan monuments were destroyed or abandoned. Garni, however, was preserved at the request of the sister of King Tiridates II and used as a summer residence for Armenian royalty.

The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.

The Mithraeum of Szony has the form of a grotto and the entrance is on the west side.

The underground cave which served as temple was cut into the conglomerate rock of the area, and a flight of eight steps of stone slabs led to it.

This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.

According to Christopher A. Faraone, the axe-head from Argos belong to a category of thunderstones reused as amulets.

The St Albans mithraic vase depicts fragments of three figures identified by Vermaseren as Hercules, Mercury and Mithras as an archer.

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’.

The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

Between the 1st and 4th centuries, Mithraism developed throughout the Roman world. Much material exists, but textual evidence is scarce. The only ancient work that fills this gap is Porphyry’s intense and complex essay.

The Temple of Mithras, inside an ancient military settlement, is situated on the eastern border of the Roman Empire.

Despite the current political landscape of the US, we can look to antiquity to see that the red cap was actually once a symbol of citizenship and welcome to the foreigner.

Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience.

How a rock relief in western Iran, carved during the time of the Sasanian Persian Empire (AD 224-651), has been re-imagined over the centuries.