The New Mithraeum Database

This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.

TNMM456 – CIMRM 911

The Mithraeum of Els Munts, near Tarragona, is one of the biggest known, together with the Mitreo delle terme di Caracalla.

TNMM31

This shrine developed towards the end of 2nd century and remained active until beginning 4th.

TNMM33

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

TNMM309 – CIMRM 852

The discovery of the Mithraeum of Tarquinia is due to the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Carabinieri, who noticed some clandestine excavations near the Ara della Regina.

TNMM229

Tauroctony from a gemme, printed on Le gemme antiche figurate di Leonardo Agostini.

TNMM228

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

TNMM92 – CIMRM 121

The red ceramic vessel from Lanuvium shows Mithra carrying the bull, followed by the dog, and the Tauroctony on the opposite side.

TNMM368 – CIMRM 207

This sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was bequeathed to the Republic of Venice in 1793 by Ambassador Girolamo Zulian.

TNMM383 – CIMRM 584

Except for the serpent, the sculpture of the taurcotony found on the Esquiline Hill lacks the usual animals that accompany Mithras in sacrifice.

TNMM380 – CIMRM 352