The New Mithraeum Database

This cylindrical marble altar was dedicated by the same Pater Proficentius as the slab, both monuments found in the Mithraeum beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

This marble monument was dedicated in Rome by the slave Fructus and his son Myro.

This marble slab, found in the Mithraeum of San Clemente, bears an inscription by a certain Aelius Sabinus for the health of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and his sons.

This elliptical terracotta fragment from Ostia depicts Mithras as a bullkiller.

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.

Franz Cumont bought this relief of Mithras as a bullkiller from a dealer who claimed to have found it in a vineyard near the church of Saint Pancrace, in Rome.

This small relief of Mithras killing the bull was found in 1859 in Turda, in the Cluj region of Romania.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.

Several elements, such as the snake, scorpion or dog, are missing from this tauroctony relief of Cluj.

Several authors read the name Suaemedus instead of Euhemerus as the author of this mithraic relief from Alba Iulia, Romania.

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

The donor of this Mithraic inscription from Bolsena, a certain Tiberius Claudius Thermoron, is known from two other monuments.

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

This marble relief from Alba Iulia contains numerous scenes from the myth of Mithras.

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

In 1938 this Mithraeum was found 3.45 mtrs under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo in Damaso, in a cellar near the Sacrament's Chapel.

The head of Mithras of Angers has been found a four months after the main relief.

The Aion of Arles includes nine signs of the zodiac in three groups of three, between the spirals of the serpent.

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