The New Mithraeum Database

Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.

TNMM304

This remarkable marble relief from the end of the 3rd century was discovered in the most remote room of the Mithraeum in the Circo Massimo.

TNMM184 – CIMRM 435, 436

In the Tauroctony of Hermopolis, Cautes and Cautopates are placed over two columns at each side of the sacrifice.

TNMM301 – CIMRM 91

Maarten Vermaseren acquired this rosso antico marble of Mithras slaying the bull in 1961.

TNMM376

A naked Sol leans over his fellow Mithras while raising his drinking-horn during the sacred feast.

TNMM291

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

TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

Szony's bronze plate shows Mithra slaying the bull and the seven planets with attributes at the bottom of the composition.

TNMM334 – CIMRM 1727

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 votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

TNMM315