The New Mithraeum Database

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".

This monument representing Cautes with uncrossed legs was consecrated by a certain Anttiocus.

The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.

In this relief found in the Sárkeszi Mithraeum, Cautes and Cautopates hold an Amazon shield.

Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.

Approved priest, Augustal serf at Casuentum et Carsulae, appointed quaestor of the Augustus treasury.

Pater and priest of the Fagan Mithtraeum with several monuments to his name.

Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.

This marble relief, found in Sisak, Croatia, shows Mithras killing the bull in a circle of corn ears, gods and some scenes from the Mithras myth.

These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

Sandstone base from Vetera (Xanten), Germania Inferior, with a relief of Cautes in Oriental dress holding a long burning torch.