The New Mithraeum Database

One of the three altars to Mithras found at the Mithraeum of Carrawburgh fort.

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull may come from Rome, probably found in 1919.

Dutch historian, born in 1918 and deceased in 1985. He was a specialist in the history of religions, especially the Eastern cults in the Roman Empire. A prolific writer, best known for his Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae.

The Mithraeum was found in one of the rooms of the Horrea built in the years 120 - 125 AD. The installation of the shrine may have taken place in the first half of the third century.

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

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

The relief marble of Mithras sacrifying the bull, exposed on the Hermitage Museum comes from Rome.

Intervention de Lucinda Dirven, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

The Tauroctony of Patras was found years before the temple over which the relief of Mithras sacrificing the bull was supposed to preside.

Both objects have a snake winding itself around them.

This marble basin found in the Mithraeum of the Footprint bears an inscription of a certain Umbilius Criton, associated with a monumental tauroctonic sculpture also found in Ostia.

The Felicissimo Mithraeum has a floor mosaic depicting the seven mithraic grades.

One of the altars from the Carrawburgh Mithraeum depicts the bust of Mithras or Sol.

This altar, which has now disappeared, was dedicated by the slave Quintio for the health of a certain Coutius Lupus.

Marcus Valerius Maximus records in this inscription his knowledge of astrology as well as the name of his wife.

This monument to the invincible god Mithras was inscribed on the façade of the church of Aiello deil Friuli, Aquileia.

The marble altar mentions Vettius Agrorius Praetextatus as Pater Sacrorum and Patrum and his wife Aconia Fabia Paulina.