The New Mithraeum Database

Offered the famous Tauroctony of Osterburken to the unconquerable sun god Mithras.

L’Inrap vient de mettre au jour un lieu de culte dédié au dieu Mithra sur le site de Mariana, à Lucciana, France.

On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste dominé par le découpage administratif des « Roman provinces of Gaul ». Mais compte tenu de l'ensemble que ce…

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

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The Mithraeum of the House of Diana was installed in two Antonine halls, northeast corner of the House of Diana, in the late 2nd or early 3rd century.

TNMM5 – CIMRM 216

A serpent emerging from a umbilicus at the side of the stele coils over Mithras naked body.

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There are two Venus from the Mithraeum of Sidon, one in bronze and the other in Parian marble.

TNMM306 – CIMRM 86

The Mithraeum in the Chapel of the Three Naves was not linked to the cult of Mithras until recently because of a mosaic showing a pig, in the belief that it was an animal unfit for consumption in a temple of Eastern origin.

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The Tauroctony of Saarbourg (Sarrebourg, ancient Pons Sarravi), France, contains most of Mithras deeds known in a single relief.

TNMM114 – CIMRM 966, 967

The Tauroctony found in Velletri, Rome, bears an inscription from its owner and donor.

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