The New Mithraeum Database

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 dedicant of this altar to the god Arimanius was probably a slave who held the grade of Leo.

The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.

The House of the Mithraeum of the Painted Walls was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC (opus incertum) and modified during the Augustan period.

The vase bears an inscription to the god but also 'king' Mithras.

Two slaves sign this small monument to Cautes.

The sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates from the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale may have been reused from an older mithraeum in Ostia.

The Isis of Merida is covered by a long dress that reaches down to her feet.

This small bronze tabula ansata was dedicated to Mithras by two brothers, probably not related by blood.