The New Mithraeum Database

This relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Rome bears the inscription of three brothers, two of them lions.

TNMM649 – CIMRM 366, 367

The Mithraeum of the Seven Spheres 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.

TNMM9 – CIMRM 239

Since 1826, four mithraea have been found at Nida-Heddernheim.

TNMM197

This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

TNMM546 – CIMRM 2354

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.

TNMM721 – CIMRM 534

This relief of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum, now Alba Iulia, Romania, contains several scenes from the Mithras legend.

TNMM664 – CIMRM 1972

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

TNMM87

This Mithraic relief of the Danubian type was found in 1940 in the old town of Plovdiv.

TNMM632 – CIMRM 2338

This white marble relief of Mithas killing the sacred bull was found embedded in the building of a noble family in Pisa.

TNMM604 – CIMRM 663

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

TNMM131 – CIMRM 415, 416