The New Mithraeum Database

Fruit de longues années de recherche et de réflexion, cette synthèse historique solide retrace l'étonnante carrière de Julien, homme de lettres et empereur, par une succession de chapitres courts. Le gros de l'ouvrage porte sur la brève période …

Es bien sabido que Mitra nació de una roca. Sin embargo, menos se ha escrito acerca del padre del dios solar, y especialmente sobre cómo lo concibió.

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.

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun ’Mythra’.

TNMM35 – CIMRM 17

Gnostic amulet found in the ancient Agora of Athens, depicting Abraxas on one side and a Mithraic inscription on the other.

TNMM547

This inscription, which doesn’t mention Mithras, was found near the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine in Rome.

TNMM653 – CIMRM 501

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

TNMM327 – CIMRM 695, 696

The marble Aion from the lost Mithraeum Fagan, Ostia, now presides the entrance to the Vatican Library.

TNMM116 – CIMRM 312, 313

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

TNMM566 – CIMRM 876

Figures in procession, each representing a different grade of Mithraic initiation, labeled with their respective titles.

TNMM115 – CIMRM 480

The person who commanded the sculpture may have been M. Umbilius Criton, documented in the Mitreo della Planta Pedis.

TNMM108 – CIMRM 230, 231

Roman stone low-relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer, with the upper part of his head missing.

TNMM1123 – CIMRM 615

Marble relief, probably found in Rome during the construction of the Palazzo Primoli along the Via Zanardelli.

TNMM997 – CIMRM 419

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.

TNMM303 – CIMRM 988

Around the relief with Mithras as a bullkiller, a number of scenes from the Mithras Iegend have been painted in the Mithraeum of Dura Europos.

TNMM823 – CIMRM 42

This marble relief depicting Mithras as a bull-slayer was once owned by Major Holzhausen and Franz Cumont and is now housed at the Belgian Academy.

TNMM805 – CIMRM 1906

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896

The epigrahy includes a mention of Marcus Aurelius, a priest of the god Sol Mithras, who bestowed joy and pleasure on his students.

TNMM602