The New Mithraeum Database

Laurent Bricault has revolutionised Mithraic studies with the exhibition The Mystery of Mithras. Meet this professor in Toulouse for a fascinating look at the latest discoveries and what lies ahead.

The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.

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 sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.

An inscription by a certain Aurelius Rufinus reveals the existence of a Mithraeum on the island of Andros, but it has not yet been found.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull from the Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres was discovered in 1802 by Petirini by order of Pope Pius VII.

Marble plaque with inscription of a sacerdos probatus to Sol and the god Invictus Mithras.

This white marble relief of Mithas killing the sacred bull was found embedded in the building of a noble family in Pisa.

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.

As usual, the solar god rises a dagger with one of his hands while emerges from the rock.

This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras's birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

Mithras rock-born from Villa Giustiniani was holding a bunch of grapes in its raised right hand instead of a torch, probably due to a restoration.

Another sculpture of Mithras rock-birth from the Mithraeum of Victorinus, in Aquincum.

The Mithraic stele from Nida depicts the Mithras Petrogenesis and the gods Cautes, Cautopates, Heaven and Ocean.

Mithras birth from the knees upwards emerging from a rock and wearing as usual a Phrygian cap.

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

The Aion-Chronos of Mérida was found near the bullring of the current city, once capital of the Roman province Hispania Ulterior.

The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.