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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

CIMRM 1665

Sandstone relief of Mithras killing the bull, broken in two parts and partly restored, with dog, serpent and scorpion preserved; formerly in Vienna, now on loan to the Museum Carnuntinum.

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Publius Aelius Nigrinus

Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.

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Ursinus

Offered an inscription to Mithras in Virunum.

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Secundinus

Imperial slave and head of the customs statio of Esca in Noricum.

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Gaius Sacidius Barbarus

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

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Adiectus

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

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Titus Flavius Verecundus

He was a centurion from Savaria, serving in Legio XIV Gemina based in Carnuntum.

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Publius Aelius Valerianus

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

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Trebius Alfius

He was one of the new brothers mentioned on the bronze plaque of Virunum.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 1701

Sandstone relief of Mithras as bull-slayer, found at Petronell in 1932, with dog, serpent and scorpion, traces of polychromy preserved, now in the Museum Carnuntinum.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 1410

Conglomerate statue of the birth of Mithras, found in a burnt layer, showing the god nude emerging from the rock with raised hands and a snake.

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Tiberius Claudius Quintilianus

Known for the donation of the bronze plaque of Virunum.

 
Monumentum

Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum

The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.

 
Locus

Carnuntum

Carnuntum was a Roman legionary fortress and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. After the 1st century, it was capital of the Pannonia Superior province. It also became a large city of 50,000 inhabitants.

 
Locus

Virunum

Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia.

 
Locus

Esca

The Bad Ischl area has been inhabited since the time of the prehistoric Hallstatt culture. Documentary evidence of the settlement dates back to 1262, when it was referred to as Iselen.

 
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Illmitz

Illmitz is a market town in the district of Neusiedl am See in Burgenland in Austria.

 
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Schachadorf

 
Monumentum

Cult vessel with snake representations of St. Egyden

Upon first examination, archaeologists interpreted the inscription on the cult vessel from Gradishje as referencing Mithras, though it has since been re-evaluated.

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