The New Mithraeum Database

Two marble busts (H. 0.96), found at Formiae and obtained in 1902 by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek at Copenhague (Inv. Nos 1905/6) from the Villa Borghese collection.

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

We only mention the bronzes from Angleur, which are now kept in the Museum at Liege and of which Cumont has proved in full details (MMM II 427ff No. 316 with fig.), that they must have belonged to the decoration of a Mithras-sanctuary.

A medal in the form of a Grecian cross, on which busts of a bearded man and of a woman with veiled head (according to Cumont they might be Sol and Luna).

Interested in Mithras since 1990.

Libertus from the Arrii-family to which also belonged the Emperor Antonius Pius.

Latin writer, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician.

Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.

The relief of Dieburg shows Mithras riding a horse as main figure, surrounded by several scenes of the myth.

Triangular relief in yellow sandstone showing a crescent in relief.

A marble head in the Uffizi Gallery, long interpreted as a “dying Alexander,” but probably representing Mithras tauroctonos.

The Mithraeum of Sutri was built inside a rocky hill that also hosted the Roman theatre of the city.