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The New Mithraeum Database

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Monumentum

CIMRM 2196 & 2197

White marble relief depicting Mithras as bull-slayer in a grotto from the Froehner collection, now in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 927

Fragment of limestone from Porêts, which was used in the 4th century.

 
Monumentum

Mithréum de Vienne

Emperor Julian may have been initiated into the cult of the god Mithras at the Mithraeum of Vienne, France, according to Turcan.

Socius

Andreu Abuín

Nam cum coeperis deae servire, tunc magis senties fructum tuae libertatis.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 997

Small limestone stele, discovered at Apt in 1903. It depicts a standing torchbearer in the conventional Mithraic posture and dress, accompanied by a cock placed at his feet.

 
Monumentum

CIMRM 893

Standing stone statuette of Cautopates, the downward-torch bearer, found at Bordeaux and kept in the city’s museum of antiquities (musée d’Aquitaine ?).

 
Monumentum

Weapons from Les Bolards

A number of metal objects and weapons have been found in the Mithraeum of Les Bolards, close to Nuits-Saint-Georges in France.

 
Monumentum

Mithréum des Bolards

The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.

 
Locus

Aquae Sextiae

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

 
Locus

Elusa

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

 
Locus

Lugdunum

Lugdunum, currently Lyon, France, was the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. The city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus. Two emperors, Claudius and Caracalla, were born in Lugdunum.

 
Locus

Dyo

Dyo is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

 
Locus

Minelle

 
Locus

Septeuil

Septeuil has been known in Mithriacism since 1984, when a sanctuary dedicated to Mithras was discovered in the 4th century. It was located in a spring sanctuary (nymphaeum) of the 1st century.

 
Locus

Burdigala

Around 300 BC, Burdigala was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci. The Romans conquered the area in 60 BC and made Burdigala the capital of the Roman province of Aquitania during the reign of Emperor Vespasian.

 
Locus

Venetonimagus

Venetonimagus, now Vieu, part of the town of Valromey, would have been called Venetonimagus or Venetonimago in Gallo-Roman times.

 
Locus

Vasio

Vaison-la-Romaine is a town in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Vaison-la-Romaine is famous for its rich Roman ruins and mediaeval town and cathedral. The old town is split into two parts: the

 
Locus

Pons Saravi

Sarrebourg is a commune of northeastern France. In 1895 a Mithraeum was discovered at Sarrebourg at the mouth of the pass leading from the Vosges Mountains.

 
Locus

Mons Seleucus

La Bâtie-Montsaléon is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. It is notable for being the location of the Battle of Mons Seleucus in 353, when Constantius II defeated the usurper Magnentius.

 
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Mariana

Mariana is a Roman site south of Biguglia, in the Haute-Corse département of the Corsica région of south-east France.

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