The New Mithraeum

Tauroctony relief fragment with torchbearer and scene of Mithras’ rockbirth from Romula, Romania.

A probable Mithraic sanctuary near Santa Maria in Domnica on the Caelian Hill, known from a group of dispersed reliefs formerly owned by Ottaviano Zeno.

Sandstone altar from the Mithraeum of Vindobala bearing a dedication to Sol Invictus and Mithras by the prefect Aponius Rogatianus.

Limestone altar dedicated to Cautes by the Roman optio Septimius Valentinus, discovered in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi in Pannonia Inferior.

Fragmentary limestone altar dedicated by Septimius Valentinus, an optio, probably discovered in Mithraeum IV at Aquincum.

Member of the Mithraic community of Les Bolards and dedicator of a statue of Cautes.

For the launch of our YouTube channel, we chat with the author, poet, essayist and friend Peter Mark Adams about the Sola-Busca tarot, a Renaissance masterpiece, uncovering ties to the Mithras cult.

Carved directly into the rock of the Rožanec sanctuary, this tauroctony relief preserves an unusually complete composition.

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

A probable Mithraic sanctuary at Poetovio, identified by Vermaseren as the so-called Mithraeum IV on the basis of four associated inscriptions.

An imperial slave and customs administrator of the Illyrian tax system, he financed and built a Mithraic temple in Moesia Superior.

Supervisor of the imperial couriers who offered an elaborate votive altar and ritual insignia to Mithras in Rome under Commodus.

One of the clearest examples of the late Roman aristocracy’s involvement in the mysteries of Mithras and other initiatory cults during the fourth century.

Honorific marble statue base dedicated to the senator and Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius by members of his provincial administration.

Late Roman funerary inscription from Antium commemorating the senator, governor of Numidia and Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius.

Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.

Marble altar dedicated at the Vatican Phrygianum in Rome by the Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius in 374 CE.

Late Roman senator, public augur and Mithraic pater active in the second half of the fourth century CE.

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.