The New Mithraeum Database

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

TNMM120 – CIMRM 810, 811

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.

TNMM200 – CIMRM 860

The relief depicts the birth of Mithras, holding a globe, surrounded by the zodiac.

TNMM312 – CIMRM 985

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

TNMM167 – CIMRM 390

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

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the ’incomprehensible god’ by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

TNMM106 – CIMRM 310, 311

This small magical jasper gem shows Sol in a quadrigra on the recto and Mithras as a bull slayer on the verso.

TNMM769 – CIMRM 2361

Solis invicti Mithrae studiosus astrologiae who was at the same time ’caelo devotus et astris’.

TNMM335

In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

TNMM125 – CIMRM 335

In this relief found in the Sárkeszi Mithraeum, Cautes and Cautopates hold an Amazon shield.

TNMM767