The New Mithraeum Database

This fragment of the base of a statue from Tarragona, Spain, bears an inscription which appears to be dedicated to the invincible Mithras.

TNMM743 – CIMRM 806

There is no consensus as to whether the altar of the slave Adiectus from Carnuntum is dedicated to a Mithras genitor of light.

TNMM753 – CIMRM 1676

The Hekataion of Sidon shows a triple Hekate surrounded by three dancing nymphs.

TNMM305 – CIMRM 84, 85

The relief of Aion from Vienne includes a naked youth in Phrygian cap holding the reins of a horse.

TNMM265 – CIMRM 902

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

TNMM732 – CIMRM 767

This relief of Mithras as bull slayer is surrounded by Cautes and Cautopates with their usual torch plus an oval object.

TNMM224 – CIMRM 71

It is not certain that the marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on Capri, in the cave of Matromania, where a Mithraeum could have been established.

TNMM715 – CIMRM 172

This sandstone altar was dedicated to Luna, who is mentioned as a male deity.

TNMM711 – CIMRM 1321

This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.

TNMM687 – CIMRM 611

The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.

TNMM686 – CIMRM 87

According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.

TNMM350 – CIMRM 73

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.

TNMM671 – CIMRM 585

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

TNMM245 – CIMRM 798

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

TNMM43 – CIMRM 1664

The altar of the Mithraeum of San Clemente bears the Tauroctony on the front, Cautes and Cautopates on the right and left sides and a serpent on the back.

TNMM469 – CIMRM 339, 340

This fragment of a double relief shows a tauroctony on one side and the sacred meal, including a serving Corax, on the other.

TNMM651 – CIMRM 397

The Tauroctony from Landerburg, Germany, shows a naked Mithras only accompanied by his fellow Cautes.

TNMM290 – CIMRM 1275

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

TNMM272 – CIMRM 11, 12

The v in this small altar found in Novaria has been interpreted by some commentators as qualifying Mithras as victorious.

TNMM622 – CIMRM 704

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

TNMM298 – CIMRM 40, 41