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Community dedicated to the study, disclosure and reenactment of the Mysteries of Mithras since 2004.
Together with his son, with whom he shares his name, Kastos has dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
Together with his father, Kastos dedicated several monuments in Rome to the glory of Zeus Helios Mithras.
This is the first known inscription that includes Phanes alongside Mithras found in a Mithraic context.
The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.
Conference by Freemason Chris Ruli on the parallels between the cult of Mithras, Freemasonry and other initiatic orders.
First African emperor of Rome (193 – 211), born in Leptis Magna, now Al-Khums in Libya.
We’ve put together a new table of cross-references of monuments to Mithras in several databases, including Vermaseren’s Corpus, Cumont’s Textes, CIL, l’Année épigraphique, Clauss / Slaby and Heldeiberg’s epigraphic databases, and more.
You can find all the references to multiple databases on one page here: Table of references for mithraic artefacts.
We’re constantly adding new references to The New Mithraeum, so feel free to check it out to see what’s new!
It is indeed surprising to see Mithras represented in the Middle Ages, as we tend to assume that paganism was forgotten at an early date. Well, some representations of Mithras killing the bull in key locations in Europe prove the opposite. To what extent did medieval masons know about the cult of Mithras?
Here are the best known examples:
* Tauroctony of Monreale
* Tauroctony of Santo Domingo de Silos
* Tauroctony of Aula Gotica
For the health of this man, a small altar was dedicated to the god Invictus in the Emerita Augusta.
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.
Actuarius and notarius, Celsianus dedicated an altar to Sol Mithras for the health of two illustrious men.
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.
Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta ’by means of a divine vision’, something unusual in Hispania.
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.
