The New Mithraeum Database

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.

TNMM340

[---?] D(eo?) d(onum?) || fec(erunt) / [---?] / [Pet?]ronius / Maximinu/s / [A?]cilius / Vibio.

Monumentum

Tauroctony found on the Esquiline

This white marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was found on the Esquilino near the Church of Saint Lucy in Selci in Rome.

TNMM146 – CIMRM 368

Monumentum

Altar of Benifayó

This altar found in Benifaió, València, was erected by a slave called Lucanus.

TNMM528 – CIMRM 807

Invicto / Mithrae / Lucanus / Ser(vus).

Mithraeum

Mitreo d’Aosta

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.

TNMM791

Monumentum

Altar of Gaius Iulius from Mérida

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.

TNMM427 – CIMRM 795

Deo / Invicto / pro salute / Cai Iuli / […].

Mithraeum

Casa del Mitreo de Mérida

Although the site at Cerro de San Albín is not a Mithraeum, archaeologists have found several monuments related to the cult of Mithras.

TNMM29 – CIMRM 772

Monumentum

Inscriptions of Eauze

Several inscriptions dedicated to Mithras have been found in Eauze, including these two by a certain Pater Sextus Vervicius Eutyches, discovered in 1768.

TNMM750 – CIMRM 888, 889

Deo Invict(o) / Sex(tus) Vervic(ius) / Eutyches / vestiar(ius) civ(is) / Trev(er) pater. V/ervi/cius Eutyc/hes pa/ter.

Monumentum

Altar of Aelius Valerianus from Illmitz

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

TNMM790 – CIMRM 2375

D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P(ublius) Aelius) Vale/rianus miles) / leg(ionis) XIIII g(eminae) s/trator c/o(n)s(ularis) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

Monumentum

Altar of Ceanu Mic

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

TNMM788 – CIMRM 2377

S(oli) I(nvicto) M(ithrae).

Monumentum

Altar of Valerianus from Ceanu Mic

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

TNMM789 – CIMRM 2376

Inv(icto) / V(alerius ?) Va(lerianus?) / bo(tum) po(suit).

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Ottaviano Zeno

In this relief of Mithras as bull slayer, recorded in 1562 in the collection of A. Magarozzi, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by trees still bearing the torches.

TNMM125 – CIMRM 335

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Osterburken

Franz Cumont considers the bas relief of Osterburken ’the most remarkable of all the monuments of the cult of Mithras found up to now’.

TNMM176 – CIMRM 1292, 1293

D[eo] S[oli] I[nvicto] M[ithrae] M[er?]catorius Castrensis in suo cons[ituit].

Monumentum

Altar by Hector Corneliorum of Mérida

This fragmented altar was found in two pieces that Ana Osorio Calvo has recently brought together.

TNMM586

... Invict[o Mithrae] / Hector Cornelior[um] / ex visu.

Monumentum

Altar of Aquileia to the brave god Mithras

This altar to Mithras found in Aquilieia mentions several persons of a same community.

TNMM497 – CIMRM 741

Deo f(orti) i(nvicto) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P. Aelius / Mercur(ialis) / Q. Tessig/nius Maxi/mia(nus) patr(es) / pros(esedente) T(ito) Aur(elio) / Victore v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito).

Monumentum

Cautopates de Bordeaux

The Cautopates of Bordeaux stands as usual with his legs crossed and arms down.

TNMM139

Monumentum

Altar by Caius Aemilius Superaius of Merida

Small white marble altar made in honour of Mithras found at San Albín, Mérida.

TNMM426 – CIMRM 796

Deo / Invicto / C(aius) Camilius / Superat(us) / a(nimo) l(ibens) p(osuit).

Monumentum

Tauroctony of Naples

The marble relief of Mithras killing the bull in Naples bears an inscription that calls the solar god omnipotentis.

TNMM464 – CIMRM 174, 175

Omnipotenti Deo Mithrae Appius / Claudius Tarronius Dexter v(ir) c(larissimus) dicat.

Mithraeum

Mithraeum of Naples

The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

TNMM219

Monumentum

Altar of Chrestion from Alba Iulia

In 1852, Károly Pap, a naval captain, unearthed several Mithraic monuments in his garden at Marospartos, including this altar.

TNMM666 – CIMRM 1945

Invicto / Mythir/ae Chr/estion / v(otum) s(olvit).

Monumentum

Altar of Sextus Syntrophus

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

TNMM787 – CIMRM 1939

Invict[o] / Mythra[e] / Sex(tus) Syntr/ofus v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens).