The New Mithraeum Database

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

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

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

Fresco showing a scene of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras in the Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

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

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

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres (Sette Sfere) is of great importance for the understanding of the cult, because of its black-and-white mosaics depicting the planets, the zodiac and related elements.

The relief of Palazzo Colonna, Rome, depicts a lion-headed figure holding a burning torch in his outstretched hands.

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull of Nersae includes several episodes from the exploits of the solar god.

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.

We’ve put together a new table of cross-references of monuments to Mithras in several databases, including Vermaseren’s Corpus, Cumont’s Textes, CIL, l’Année épigraphique, Clauss / Slaby and Heldeiberg’s epigraphic databases, and more…

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this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

This altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

The Mithraea in the territory of Arupium were first mentioned by Š. Ljubić in 1882.

Solis invicti Mithrae studiosus astrologiae who was at the same time ’caelo devotus et astris’.

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.