The New Mithraeum Database

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

TNMM365

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

TNMM204 – CIMRM 1593, 1594

The Tauroctony relief of Neuenheim, Heidelberg, includes several scenes from the deeds of Mithras and other gods.

TNMM205 – CIMRM 1283

Mithras galloping, in a cypress forest, carrying a globe in one hand and accompanied by a lion and a snake.

TNMM177 – CIMRM 1289

This unusual piece depicts Mithras slaying the bull on one side and the Gnostic god Abraxas on the other.

TNMM544 – CIMRM 2364

As usual, the solar god rises a dagger with one of his hands while emerges from the rock.

TNMM434 – CIMRM 2184

Mithras Petrogenitus, born from the rock, from the Mithraeum of Carnuntum III.

TNMM237 – CIMRM 1687

This remarkable relief by Cautes was found in what appears to be a mithraeum in Trier.

TNMM588

These fragments of a monumental tauroctony found in the Cerro de San Albín must have decorated the Gran Mitreo de Mérida, which has not yet been found.

TNMM584

An unusual feature of this very ancient relief is that Cautopates carries a cockerel upside down, while Cautes carries it right-side up.

TNMM510 – CIMRM 2268, 2269