Temples of Mithras

The 'Mithraic cave' in the Gradische/Gradišče massif near St. Egidio contained vessels decorated with snakes and the remains of chicken bones and other animals that were consumed during Mithraic ceremonies.

Austria

This temple of Mithras on the north side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome no longer exists.

CIMRM 414

Italy

Many of the inscriptions and sculptures of the site were kept in a museum which has been destroyed.

CIMRM 121

Algeria

A Mithraeum has been identified in Eleusis where the last Hierophant form thespia had the rank of Father in the Mithraic Mysteries.

Greece

C’est en 1986, à l’occasion de la restructuration de l’ancien magasin Parunis, qu’une fouille de sauvetage archéologique fut réalisée cours Victor Hugo.

France

The Mithraeum of the Elephant tomb is located in Roman necropolis. In one of the burials the statue of an elephant was found.

Spain

The two altars found in the Mithraeum of Mundelsheim, one of Sol and the other of Luna, are exposed in situ.

Germany

The Mithraeum located in Piazza Dante in Rome was discovered in 1874 along with a series of monuments dedicated by a Pater named Primus.

CIMRM 349

Italy

At about a mile's distance from the village of Mit-Rahine near Memphis a Mithraeum has been discovered, which itself has not yet been described.

CIMRM 91

Egypt

In a house from the time of Constantine, a Lararium was found with a statue of Isis-Fortuna. The Mithraeum was a door next to it, on a lower room.

CIMRM 356

Italy

García y Bellido proposed the existence of a mithraeum in a narrow, elongated room where the Troia mithraic relief was found.

Portugal

The Mitreo dei Marmi Colorati takes its name after the discovery of a black-and-white mosaic of Pan fighting with Eros.

Italy

In the 1900s a model Mithraeum was built in Saalburg in the mistaken belief that there was an original temple of Mithras in an ancient Roman building.

Germany

The Mithraeum of Carminiello ai Mannesi was installed in two rooms of a 1st century BC domus.

Italy

The Mithraeum of Kunzing was an underground building, oriented east-west. The entrance was probably on the east.

Germany

The Mithraeum of the Crypta Balbi was locted in the middle of a densely populated insula near the theatre of Cornelius Balbus.

Italy

The Mithraeum I of Cologne is situated amid a block of buildings. It was impossible to narrowly determine its construction and lay-out.

CIMRM 1018

Germany

A second Mithraeum was found in Cologne described by R. L. Grodon as of 'small importance'.

Germany

One of the rooms in a sustantive masonry building in Hollytrees Meadow was considered to be a Mithreum, a theory that has now been discarded.

CIMRM 829

United Kingdom