The New Mithraeum Database

These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

The inscription included the names of the brotherhood, which are now lost.

This is the earliest sculpture of Mithras killing the bull known to date.

This is one of several marble inscriptions made by a certain Caelius Ermeros, who was the antistes of the Mithraeum of the Imperial Palace.

These three fragments of carved marble depict Jupiter, Sol, Luna and a naked man wearing a Phrygian cap, with inscriptions calling Mithras Sanctus Dominum.

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

The Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla is one of the largest temples dedicated to Mithras ever found in Rome.

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

The inscription explains the transmission of the fourth Mithraic degree through the Paters of the Mitraeum of San Silvestro.

The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

This is the first of several fresco scenes depicting the initiation of a new member in a mithraic community, in Capua Vetere.

The head of Mithras had seven holes made for fastening rays.

The monument is engraved with an inscription by Cresces, the donor.

This altar, now lost, mentions that the Pater Patrum passed on the attributes of the sacred Corax to his son.

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.

In 1946 Franz Cumont wrote me: "D'apres une notice que m'a communique Richard Wiinsch en 1910, Ie Lyceum Hosianum de Braunsberg en Prusse orientale possede (ou possMait car il n'existe peut-etre plus) un basrelief de Mithra, acquis pres de Rome"…

Marble base "von zwei Palmen ins Gevierte, wenig mehr als einen halben Palme dick".

The lion sculpture found near the entrance of the Mithraeum at Les Bolards is unique in its genre.