The New Mithraeum Database

I live in Portland Oregon and spend my time designing and crafting masks, fabrics and regalia for ritual spaces and seasonal processions.

On one of the capitals of the cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Monreale, Sicily, an unusual turbaned bull-slaying Mithras has been recorded.

TNMM764

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

TNMM544 – CIMRM 2364

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

TNMM577

This intaglio with Mithras killing the bull on one side and Kabiros on the other was probably used as a magical amulet.

TNMM551 – CIMRM 2366

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In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

TNMM125 – CIMRM 335

There are no further details about this Mithraic statue from Transylvania, the historical region of central Romania.

TNMM705 – CIMRM 2185

This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.

TNMM672 – CIMRM 586