The New Mithraeum Database

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

TNMM33

The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

TNMM405

The Tauroctony relief of Mithras killing the bull walled in the Cortile of the Belvedered, Vatican City, was found by Fagan near Ostia.

TNMM363 – CIMRM 321

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

TNMM3 – CIMRM 278

This scene of the main fresco of the Mithraeum Barberini seems to depict part of the initiation into the Mithraic Mysteries.

TNMM283

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Bologna depicts several scenes of the mithraic myth.

TNMM325 – CIMRM 693

This monument bears an inscription and the representation of Cautes and Cautopates on the sides.

TNMM524 – CIMRM 1697, 1698

This heliotrope gem, depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dates from the 2nd-3rd century, but was reused as an amulet in the 13th century.

TNMM550

The Mithraeum of Ponza was discovered in 1866. It contained the remains of a zodiac investigated by Vermaseren in 1989.

TNMM96