The New Mithraeum Database

A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

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

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.

Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.

During the excavations of 1804-1805, a series of monuments dedicated to Mithras and a temple were discovered at ancient Mons Seleucus.

This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

Mithras Tauroctony on bronze exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

This altar was dedicated to Cautes by a certain Lucius in Baetulo (Badalona), near Barcino (Barcelona).

The statue of Mercury in Merida bears a dedication from the Roman Pater of a community in the city in 155.

The Tauroctony of Nicopolis ad Istrum is unique as it is the only Mithraic stele befitting a Greek donor.

The Mackwiller Mithraeum was built in the middle of the 2nd century, during the reign of Antoninus the Pious, on the site of a spring already worshipped by the natives.

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

This painting depicts an Iranian knight holding in a chain a black naked figure with two heads.

A votive altar referring to the cult of Mithras was found more than forty years before the site was excavated and the Mithraeum discovered.

The Mithraeum of Mainz, was discovered outside the Roman legionary fortress. Unfortunately the site was destroyed without being recorded.

The Roman villa of Can Molodell had a sanctuary that has been related to the cult of Mithras.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

This nude male figure, found at Cerro de San Albín, Mérida, has been identified as Cautes.