This dedicatory inscription by Aurelius Seleucus, found in Cilicia, aligns with Plutarch’s account of Cilician pirates performing foreign sacrifices and secret rites of Mithras.
Greek ritual graffito scratched on wall plaster in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, mentioning the “fiery exhalation” and the “sacred nitre” of the Magi.
Fragmentary Greek graffito from Dura-Europos recording the prices of everyday goods such as wine, meat, wood and lamp wicks.
This votive silver plaque depicting Mithras was found at the site of Pessinus, Ballıhisar, in Turkey.
Tauroctony relief fragment with torchbearer and scene of Mithras’ rockbirth from Romula, Romania.
One of the reliefs of the Dura Europos tauroctonies includes several characters with their respective names.
The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.
The Marino Mithraeum preserves one of the most elaborate painted cycles of Mithras’ myth, combining the tauroctony, planetary symbolism and scenes from the god’s sacred narrative.
A probable Mithraic sanctuary near Santa Maria in Domnica on the Caelian Hill, known from a group of dispersed reliefs formerly owned by Ottaviano Zeno.
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this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.
One of Roman Italy’s most important Mithraic sanctuaries, the Mithraeum at S. Maria Capua Vetere preserves a remarkable painted cycle of initiation scenes, offering rare visual evidence for the ritual life of Roman Mithaism.
This Mithraic shrine on the island of Ponza is renowned for its exceptional stucco zodiac and astral symbolism linked to Roman Mithaism.
Limestone altar dedicated to Cautes by the Roman optio Septimius Valentinus, discovered in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi in Pannonia Inferior.
One of the largest known Mithraea in Pannonia, the sanctuary of Sárkeszi stood near the Roman road linking Herculia and Aquincum.
Fragmentary limestone altar dedicated by Septimius Valentinus, an optio, probably discovered in Mithraeum IV at Aquincum.
The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.
This marble tablet found at Portus Ostiae mentions a pater, a lion donor and a series of male names, probably from a Mithraic community.
This small and highly questionable relief from southern France may depict a winged leontocephalic figure seated.
This supposed Mithraic altar from Soulan in the Pyrenees was later identified as a modern forgery, including both the inscription and the alleged cave context in which it was said to have been discovered.
This heavily damaged relief from Narbo preserves the figure of a cross-legged Mithraic torchbearer carved in low relief near the church of Saint-Sébastien in Narbonne.
