The New Mithraeum Database

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.

Palæographia Britannica: or, discourses on antiquities that relate to the history of Britain. Number III.

The folio depicts three tauroctonies and a Mithras Triumphantes standing on a bull with the globe in one hand and the dagger in the other.

According to Christopher A. Faraone, the axe-head from Argos belong to a category of thunderstones reused as amulets.

The Mithraic sword found in the Riegel Mithraeum may have been used as a prop during rituals.

According to Pettazzoni Aion in general finds its iconographical origin in Egypt. Mithras must have been worshipped in Egypt in the third century B.C.

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

At about a mile's distance from the village of Mit-Rahine near Memphis a Mithraeum has been discovered, which itself has not yet been described.

The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

This Mithraic temple, now disappeared, is known thanks to the numerous remains recorded since 1594 in the 'Memorie di varie antichità trovate in diversi luoghi della città di Roma'.

Presentation on the Dionysian-themed frescoes of the Villa of the Mysteries by Peter Mark Adams on the occasion of the presentation of his book.

Video report in Hungarian by the Aquincum Museum on the Mithraic discoveries in the region.

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

The Mithraeum has found in a Roman building at the end of Attila Road, in Hévíz, Egregy

This sculpture of Mithras sacrificing the bull was found in the Quirinal and is now on display in the Musei Capitolini.

Possibly a Mithraic scene discovered in Mödling, Austria.

In the mithraic relief of Entrains, the god Sol is depicted riding his chariot together with Luna and a krater surrounded by a serpent.

Emperor Julian is supposed to have presided over a human sacrifice in the Mithraeum of Scarbantia, according to N. Massalsky.

The article reveals the context in which the first public appearance of Mitra happened to answer two questions: who were the first people to give prominence to this deity, and for what purpose they did so.

Those initiated into the Mithraic cult were called upon to climb up to seven symbolic rungs of the ladder ultimately leading to the rank of Pater.