The New Mithraeum Database

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

The frescoes depict several figures dressed in different garments associated with the Mithraic degrees.

Fresco of Mithras found in an arched niche above the right bench of the Baths of Caracalla’s Mithraeum in Rome.

Marble torso found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini, dedicated to Mithras by a certain Atilius Glycol.

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras’s myth.

The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.

This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring the rare term signum, seldom found in Mithraic contexts.

This marble plaque was made by a Pater and priest Lucius Septimius Archelaus of Mithras for him, his wife and his freedmen and freedwomen.

In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

This altar is dedicated to the god Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Florus, a veteran of the Legio III Augusta.

Slab found at Tazoult-Lambèse dedicated to the Unconquered god Sol Mithras by the governor of Numidia Marcus Aurelius Decimus.

The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

Votive inscription dedicated to Mithras by the veteran soldier Tiberius Claudius Romanius, from the Mithraeum II Köln, 3rd century.

This altar dedicated to Helios Mithras by a certain Sagaris was repurposed in the masonry of Palazzo Bagnoli, Venosa, Italy.

In this 4th-century Roman altar, the senator Rufius Caeionius Sabinus defines himself as Pater of the sacred rites of the unconquered Mithras, having undergone the taurobolium.

This inscription by a certain Memmius Placidus is the first ever found signed by a Heliodromus.

A certain Secundinus, steward of the emperor, dedicated this altar to Mithras in Noricum, today Austria.

This sculpture, probably of Cautopates, now in the Musei Vaticani, was transformed into Paris.

The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.