The New Mithraeum Database

In this relief of the rock birth of Mithras, the child sun god holds a bundle of wheat in his left hand instead of the usual torch.

This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.

The fragmented tauroctony of the Mitreo di Santa Prisca rests on the naked figure of a bearded man, probably Ocean or Saturn.

This inscription was dedicated to God Cautes by a certain Flavius Antistianus, Pater Patrorum in Rome.

This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

The few remains of the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen are preserved at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, in Speyer, Germany.

Fragments of this limestone statue include the head and torso of Mercury, holding the caduceus in his left hand.

Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.

This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.

This low relief on an altar of Mithras killing the bull was found in a church in Pisignano, south of Ravenna.

This statue of Mithras as a bullkiller was bought at Rome where it might be found.

This monument, now lost, was discovered in the 16th century, probably on the site of Sublavio statio.

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.

This second tauroctony, found in the Mithraeum of Dormagen, was consecrated by a man of Thracian origin.

This 3rd century marble relief of Silvanus is the only sculpture found in Mitreo Aldobrandini.

A mosaic of Silvanus, dated to the time of Commodus, was found in a niche in a nearby room of the Mithraeum in the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

Diana-Luna, Mercurius, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Mars are depicted in the mosaics on the benches of this mithraeuma.

The rich mosaics of the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres include the the signs of the Zodiac.

Only a fragment of this marble group of Mithras killing the bull remains.