The torchbearers are at work. Expect the occasional flicker while we tend the grotto.
Marble votive altar with inscription to Mithras, featuring coiled, fan-like motifs above the text and associated with the statio Enensis.
This marble slab bears an inception be the Pater Proficentius to whom Mithras has suggested to build and devote a temple.
This is one of the three reliefs depicting Mithras killing the bull that the Louvre Museum acquired from the Roman Villa Borghese collection.
The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.
The second statue of Mithras rock-birth was found in the Mitreo di Santo Stefano Rotondo shows a childish Mitras emerging from the rock.
The inscription mentions the name of the donor, Yperanthes, of Persian origin.
The marble statue of Cautes, found in the Mithraeum of Santa Prisca, was originally a Mercury.
This altar was originally consecrated to Hercules and was rededicated to Mithras by Callinicus in the Mithraeum of the House of Diana.
This small white marble relief of Mithras as a bullkiller was found in the Botanical Gardens of Vienna in 1950.
Marble statue from Intercisa representing a lion holding an indistinct animal beneath its forepaws. Found in a vineyard, the piece is now in the Hungarian National Museum.
This inscription mentions a Pater for the first known time.
This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.
Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.
Marble inscribed slab recording the dedication of a Mithraeum and an antrum to Mithras for the safety and victories of Septimius Severus and his family, found in Rome.
This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.
The sculpture of the birth of Mithras in Florence included the head of Oceanus.
This bust of a lion-headed figure has been was part of a French private collection.
A marble head in the Uffizi Gallery, long interpreted as a “dying Alexander,” but probably representing Mithras tauroctonos.
Marble plaque with inscription by a certain Ursinus found in Virunum in 1838.
