The New Mithraeum Database

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

Marcus Statius Niger was a lion who erected an altar to Cautopates in Statio, the present-day Angera, with his brother Gaius.

The Niasar Cave, غار نیاسر, was a temple probably devoted to Iranian Mithras that dates back to the early Partian era.

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

Cautopates sculpture of Sidon features a snake near his left leg.

Conference by Freemason Chris Ruli on the parallels between the cult of Mithras, Freemasonry and other initiatic orders.

Found in Illmitz, Austria, in 1959, this altar was dedicated to the unconquered god Mithras by a certain Aelius Valerianus.

The Cautopates of Bordeaux stands as usual with his legs crossed and arms down.

This altar, dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by a certain Eutyches for the health of the Emperor Caracalla, was found in Sisak, Croatia, in 1899.

The dedicator of this monument is also known for having made a tauroctonic relief in Nesce.

This monument bears an inscription to Mithras by a well-known general of the Roman Empire.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

The altars of the gods of the Sun and Moon found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim wear openwork segments that could be lighten from behind.

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

A certain Secundinus, steward of the emperor, dedicated this altar to Mithras in Noricum, today Austria.

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.

These two mithraic sculptures of Cautes and Cautopates belong to the same collection of Astuto de Noto, made up of mostly Sicilian monuments.

Workman digging in a field near Dormagen found a vault. Against one of the walls were found two monuments related to Mithras.

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

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.