The New Mithraeum Database

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

The relief depict several unusual scenes from Mithras’s myth.

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

The Mithraeum of Hauarte or Hawarte, which preserves colourful frescoes, it's the latest know and used.

Fresco du Mithraeum de Hawarte, Syria, depicts Mithras' victory over the Sun.

The second tauroctony of Jabal al-Druze seems to have be made by the same sculptor.

Fragment of white marble relief (H. 0.20 Br. 0.13 D. 0.07).

On piece of wall plaster.

"Several heads were found of such a large scale that they must have belonged to fairly large paintings" (See fig. 12, IO) (Report, 104).

The soffit or reveal of the arched niche had been decorated with white stars on a blue background.

Inscription carved on the pairs of columns on the backs of the five thrones, which stand on the west and east part of the terrace.

Roman emperor at the age of 14, from 218 to his death in 222, Elagabalus was a main priest of the sun god Elagabal in Emesa.

Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.

Soldier of the Legio XVI Flavia Firma Antoniana stationed at Dura Europos.

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

Danube region can be traced back to the legions that fought under his command in Armenia.

Doryphorus gave his grade and name in a monumental candalabrum found in Rome.

Thrasyllus was an Egyptian of Greek descent grammarian, astrologer and a friend of the Roman emperor Tiberius.