The New Mithraeum

Update! Found a new post-classical monument, this one from the French Renaissance: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/771. And from now on, all post-classical monuments will be available here: https://www.mithraeum.eu/quaere.php?tag=postclassical

Professor Wind's acclaimed work explores pagan mysticism and neoplatonic philosophy in Renaissance art, offering insightful analyses of masterpieces by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.

Textile merchant from Augusta Treverorum and Pater of his community, he left testimony of his cult to Mithras in the 3rd century.

Soldier of Legio XIII Gemina and strator consularis who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras.

Found in Illmitz, Austria, in 1959, this altar was dedicated to the unconquered god Mithras by a certain Aelius Valerianus.

This is the second altar found in Ceanu Mic to date, dedicated to an Invictus being.

This limestone altar to Sol Invictus Mithra was found at Turda in 1905.

Greek-speaking member of the community of Mithras followers from Apulum in the 2nd century.

We are delighted to announce that the dates for MithraCon 2025 have been set for the last weekend in April, from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th.

Mithracon is an informal research convention for people interested in the study of the god Mithras, whose popularity peaked among the Roman legions around 100-400 AD. Highlights of the convention include the opportunity to conduct research in Yale’s world-class libraries and to visit the Yale University Art Gallery, which houses the Dura Europos Mithraeum.

For full details, visit https://www.mithracon.org.

Gaius dedicated an altar to the god Invictus in Emerita Augusta in the 2nd century.

A slave of a certain Tiberius, he likely dedicated an altar to the invincible god Mithras in Carnuntum.

Neapolitan senator who dedicated a tauroctonic relief to Mithras tauroctonus to the Almighty God Mithras.

Syntrofus, whose Greek cognomen means companion, is part of a modest Mithraic community in Apulum.

Freedman from Greek-speaking origin who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

This altar to Invictus Mythra (sic) was found in 1867 in ancient Maros Portum, now Sighișoara, Romania.

One of the three known inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marci, found in Alba Iulia, Romania.

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

This is one of the at least three inscriptions of Dioscorus, servant of Marcus to Mithras Invictus found in Alba Iulia, Romania.

Antistes of several mithraea in Ostia.

Imperial slave who donated an altar to Mithras for the benefit of the emperor Caracalla.