The New Mithraeum Database

Has dedicated the main cult relief of a temple in Carnuntum.

Legionary soldier of Legio I Adiutrix barracked in Brigetio.

Dedicated the northernmost in situ Mithraic find on the Roman Empire.

Slave who dedicated to Mithras ten drinking vessels at Mons Seleucus.

classics student at the Uni of Edinburgh

The Aion / Phanes relief, currently on display in the Gallerie Estensi, Moneda, is associated with two Eastern mysteric religions: Mithraism and Orphism.

The Cilician pirates incorporated significant divine feminine elements, notably Anahita, into their Mithraic practices, profoundly influencing the initiation rites within the Roman Empire.

The name of this domus comes from the fact that some authors once associated one of its mosaics with the cult of Mithras, a connection that has since been dismissed.

This scene of a feast from Mérida shows three persons at a table with other people standing beside them, one holding a bull’s head on a plate.

This inscription commemorates the building of a mithraeum in Bremenium with fellow worshippers of Mithras.

The Stockstadt Raven is one of only two standing-alone sculptures of this bird to be found in Mithraic statuary.

The Mithraeum at Espronceda Street, in Merida, was discovered in 2000. It is a semi-subterranean temple.

There is no solid evidences of the finding of a Mithraic temple in Duhok, Iraq.

The exploration of an old pazo, a manor house, near the Roman wall, in Lugo, led to the discovery of a Roman domus, which existed continuously from the beginnings of the Christian Era until the Late Empire.

Relief possibly depicting Mithras-Men holding a torch and a a bust of Luna on a crescent.

This terra sigillata was found in 1926 in a grave on the Roman cemetery of St. Matthias, Trier. An eyelet indicates that it could have been hung on a wall.

I am a member of the Longthorpe Legion, a Living History group linked to our local museum that portrays the Romans in Britain, including a Temple to Mithras.

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.

This fragment of a sculpture depicting the birth of Mithras from a rock, intertwined with a chaotic mass of serpent coils, was discovered in Aquileia, Italy.

The Mühltal Mithraic crater was discovered among the artefacts of a mithraeum found in Pfaffenhoffen am Inn, Bavaria.