The New Mithraeum Database

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

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

TNMM255 – CIMRM 1584, 1585

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

TNMM549

This scene from the frescoes of the Mitreo di Santa Maria Capua Vetere shows a kneeling, naked man surrounded by two other figures.

TNMM333 – CIMRM 191

The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.

TNMM81 – CIMRM 917

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

TNMM213 – CIMRM 1991

This stone in basso relief of Mithras killing the bull was found 10 foot underground in Micklegate York in 1747.

TNMM246 – CIMRM 835

In Vergil’s Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particular…

This magnificently illustrated publication renews the Mithraic dossier on the basis of concrete data, with caution and penetration. Marino's discovery is disconcerting and rekindles the controversy about the order in which bands should be read.

Robert Turcan, Mithras Platonicus. Recherches sur l'hellénisation philosophique de Mithra. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975. 24 x 15,5, xι + 145 p., 5 pi. d'illustr. h. t., 2 index (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, t. 47)…