The New Mithraeum Database in Spain

The capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, Tarraco is the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula.

Astorga is a municipality and city of Spain located in the central area of the province of León, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, 43 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital.

Recent interpretations link this marble inscription to the cult of the goddess Nemesis.

TNMM733 – CIMRM 768

This lost monument from Malaga, Spain, to Dominus Invictus has been linked to the cult of Mithras, although there is not enough evidence.

TNMM732 – CIMRM 767

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

This unfinished Mithras tauroctonos without the usual surrounding animals was found in 1923 in Italica, near Seville, Spain.

TNMM659 – CIMRM 769

Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania; its site is close to the town of Santiponce in the province of Seville, Spain.

Set in a Roman necropolis, the so-called Mithraeum of the Elephant takes its name from an elephant statue found in one of the tombs.

TNMM289

This head of Serapis from Cerro de San Albín may be unrelated to Mithras worship.

TNMM470 – CIMRM 783

This lost monument bears an inscription to Cautes by a certain Tiberius Claudius Artemidorus.

TNMM560 – CIMRM 797

The monument of San Juan de la Isla (Asturias) devoted to Mithras was preserved in the portico of the main church until 1843.

TNMM196 – CIMRM 803

The area was populated by Iberians, but the origins of Baetulo date back to the 1st century BC, when the Romans founded the city on the Rosés hill. Baetulo was famous for its vineyards, which produced wine for export throughout the Empire.

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

Cabra is a municipality in Córdoba province, Andalusia, Spain and the site of former bishopric Egabro.

Ituro, now Cabrera de Mar, was an important trading town and the capital of the Laietani, an Iberian people, until Roman times.

Colunga is a municipality in the Autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain.

Today Lugo was the capital of the Capori tribe. It was conquered by Paullus Fabius Maximus and named Lucus Augustus in 13 BC after the positioning of a Roman military camp.

The Roman remains of Benifaió, or Benifayó in Spanish, are located on the outskirts of the city. Of particular interest is a rustic villa inhabited between the 1st and 4th centuries according to the numismatic and ceramic remains found.

Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.

TNMM189

One of the rooms of the villa has been interpreted as a mithraeum, but we do not have enough evidence to confirm this.

TNMM72