The New Mithraeum
Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004..
Materninius Faustinus
He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.
Altar of Faustinus from Gimmeldingen
This sandstone altar was dedicated to the god Invictus by a certain Faustinus from Gimmeldingen.
Tauroctony of Gimmeldingen
This relief of Mithras killing the bull found in Gimmeldingen, Germany, lacks the usual raven.
Mithras-inscription of Speyer
This monument with an inscription to the god Sol Mithras was found in front of the cathedral of Speyer during some sewer works.
Petrogeny of Bingen
This sculpture of Mithras born from a rock was found in 1922 together with two altars in what was probably a mithraeum.
Luna in biga of Boulogne
This monument is too fragmentary to recod it definitely as a Mithras-monument.
Apronianus
Public treasurer known for several inscriptions to Mithras found in San Silvestro.
Inscription of Apronianus of Nesce
The dedicator of this monument is also known for having made a tauroctonic relief in Nesce.
Aion from Luxor
This statuette was bought by A. Wiedemann in Luxor in 1882 from a man from Kus.
Aion of Porsione
This Aion is known for wearing a Kalathos on his lion’s head, linking him to the syncretic Sarapis.
Note from Franz Cumont on Sidon discoveries
The following note deserved an entry in Vermaseren’s Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae.
Mithraeum of Qasr ibn Wardan
According to F. Cumont, the Bedouins told a legend from which Nöldeke concluded that the castle of Quasr-ibn-Wardân was a fort with a mithraeum.
Graffito of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana
In the cult niche of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana there is a list of words that could indicate names and measurements.
Hermae of the Mitreo del Caseggiato di Diana
A bearded Bacchus and another hermes as a woman, both crowned with vine tendrils, were walled into the base of a niche.
Doryphorus
Doryphorus gave his grade and name in a monumental candalabrum found in Rome.
Candelabrum of Doryphorus
This magnificent candelabrum was found in Rome in 1803, in the Syrian Temple of Janicule.
Murius Victor
Murius Victor was an aedile of Civitas Taunensium who, in fulfilment of a vow, built an altar to Mithras.
Altar of Murius Victor from Frankfurt
Marius Victor, according to the inscription on the monument, erected this monument to Mithras ’when Philip and Titianus were consuls’.
Mithraic vignettes of Ptuj
These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.
Mithraic vignettes of Besigheim
These two fragments of a sandstone relief were walled into a house on the market square in Besigheim.
