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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Monumentum

Grand camée de France

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

 
Liber

Les Cultes à mystères dans l’Empire romain. Païens et Chrétiens en compétition

Francesco Massa examines how the concept of mysteria was transformed in the Roman Empire, as Christian authors from the mid-second century CE adopted the language of mysteries to articulate their own rituals and beliefs, reshaping understandings of both Christian and traditional cults…

Socius

Francesca Crc

 
Monumentum

Intaglio of chalcedony at the BnF

This intaglio depicting Mithras killing the bull is preserved at the Bibliothèque national de France.

Syndexios

Ulpius Egnatius Faventinus

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

 
Locus

Intaranum (Entrains-sur-Nohain)

Entrains-sur-Nohain is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.

 
Locus

Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence)

Aix-en-Provence or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km north of Marseille.

 
Locus

Gesoriacum (Boulogne-sur-mer)

Boulogne-sur-Mer; Picard: Boulonne-su-Mér; Dutch: Bonen; Latin: Gesoriacum or Bononia, often called just Boulogne, is a coastal city in Northern France.

 
Video

Mithra en dialogue (1) - Frantz Grenet (2025-2026)

Séminaire du 5 mai 2026 : The Lord of the Covenant: Mihr the judge and the celebration of Mihragān.

 
Monumentum

Inscription of Pylades from Angers

This marble plaque from Iuliomagus, Roman Angers, bears a rare dedication to Mithras by Pylades, a slave of an imperial slave connected to the Roman administration in Gaul.

 
Monumentum

Altar from Rome by Mnester and Philetus

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

 
Monumentum

Head of Mithras from Mackwiller

This fragment of the head of a young Mithras is one of the finds made during the excavations carried out by Jean-Jacques Hatt at Mackwiller, France, in 1955.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctony from La Bâtie-Montsaléon

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.

 
Locus

Epamantodurum (Mandeure)

Mandeure is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

 
Locus

Apta Julia (Apt)

Apt is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

 
Locus

Elusa (Eauze)

Eauze is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.

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