The New Mithraeum Database

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

According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular.

Set in a Roman necropolis, the so-called Mithraeum of the Elephant takes its name from an elephant statue found in one of the tombs.

This high stele by a certain Acilius Pisonianus bears an inscription commemorating the restoration of a Mithraeum in Mediolanum, today's Milan.

This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.

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

The tauroctony relief of Sidon depicts the signs of the zodiac and the four seasons, among other familiar features.

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

This medallion belongs to a specific category of rounded pieces found in other provinces of the Roman world.

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

In the Mithraeum of Gross Gerau, discovered in 1989, a statue of Mercury, a lion and an altar were found.

This temple of Mithras has been discovered under the Church in Vieux-en-Val-Romey, in 1869.

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.

Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

Presentation of the so-called Mithraeum of Burham by Mark Samuel at the Ordinary Meeting of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

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.

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

This relief of Mithras killing the sacred bull was found in 1908 near Klisa, in the surroundings of Salona, the ancient capital of Roman Dalmatia.