The New Mithraeum Database tagged with speleum

The importance of the Mithraeum of Marino lies in its frescoes, the most significant of which is that of Mithras slaying the bull, surrounded by mythological scenes.

TNMM201

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