The New Mithraeum Database

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull at Mauls in Gallia cisalpina is a paradigmatic example of the so-called Rhine-type Tauroctony.

TNMM476 – CIMRM 1400

The votive fresco from the Mithraeum Barberini displays several scenes from Mithras's myth.

TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

Con motivo del descubrimiento de un mitreo en Mitra en Cabra, charlamos con uno de los referentes del mitraísmo, Jaime Alvar. Con él, repasamos los testimonios hasta hoy conocidos y las especificidades del culto mitraico en Hispania.

Douze siècles séparent le déclin du Mithraïsme romain de l'aube de la Franc-maçonnerie. Douze siècles pendant lesquels les mystères de Mithra sont restés plus secrets que jamais.

Twelve centuries separate the decline of Roman Mithraism from the dawn of Freemasonry. Twelve centuries during which the mysteries of Mithras have remained more secret than ever.

These fragments of a monumental relief of Mithras killing the bull were put together...

TNMM576 – CIMRM 1359, 1360

Currently in the Musei Vaticani, this Tauroctony includes Mithras's birth restored as Venus anaduomene.

TNMM209 – CIMRM 556, 625

The relief of Mithras slaying the bull found on the Esquiline Hill includes two additional scenes with Mithras and two other figures.

TNMM382 – CIMRM 350, 351

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

TNMM765

The mithraic relief of Konjic shows a Tauroctony in one side and a ritual meal in the other.

TNMM259 – CIMRM 1896