The New Mithraeum Database

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

TNMM157 – CIMRM 78, 79

The colossal head has been identified as a solar god, Apollo-Mihr-Mithras-Helios-Hermes.

TNMM275 – CIMRM 29

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is one of the highest peaks in the eastern Taurus Mountains, southeastern Turkey. On its summit large statues stand around what is supposed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC.

TNMM79 – CIMRM 28

A certain Maximus from the Legio IV Scythica engraved his name in one of the columns of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

TNMM759 – CIMRM 62

The Hekataion of Sidon shows a triple Hekate surrounded by three dancing nymphs.

TNMM305 – CIMRM 84, 85

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

TNMM344

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

TNMM731 – CIMRM 35, 36

According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

TNMM350 – CIMRM 73

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

TNMM142 – CIMRM 75

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

TNMM11 – CIMRM 74

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

TNMM298 – CIMRM 40, 41

'Hail to Kamerios the Pater' can be read on one of the walls of the mithraeum at Dura Europos.

TNMM614 – CIMRM 67

The text mentions a certain Kamerios, described as immaculate miles.

TNMM467 – CIMRM 59

One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.

TNMM179 – CIMRM 37, 38

This short dipinto pays homage to the Lions and the Persians, the 4th and 5th Mithraic degrees.

TNMM613 – CIMRM 58

In this fresco from Dura Europos, Mithras is represented as a hunter accompanied by the lion and the serpent.

TNMM286 – CIMRM 52

This enigmatic fresco on top of the main tauroctony shows Mithras killing the bull, accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates, surrounded by burning altars and cypress trees.

TNMM422 – CIMRM 45, 46

Sol watches Mithras as he gazes Mithras gazes up to heaven while sharing the sacred meal.

TNMM203 – CIMRM 49

The Mithraea of Doliche, ancient Dülük, Turkey, are unique in that they represent two distinct shrines on the same site.

TNMM172