The New Mithraeum Database

Open University student

Really interested in ancient religions, now retired I can give some time to this.

A naked Mithra emerges from the cosmic egg surrounded by the zodiac, as always carrying a torch and a dagger.

Classical history master’s student at Birkbeck College, University of London

The Caernarfon candelabrum is a reconstruction of several iron pieces found in the Mithraeum of Caernarfon.

Merchant Navy Captain BA Hons (English)

This votive silver plaque depicting Mithras was found at the site of Pessinus, Ballıhisar, in Turkey.

Hi, I’m a newly converted Greco-Roman pagan who’s deeply interested in Mithraism. Have no idea if I’m in the right place though!

An author writing a novel on Mithras

To date, there is no evidence that the so-called Mithraeum of Burham was ever used to worship the sun god.

Marble fragment with an inscription (ILN 1954,636).

Mithraic Community for the English-speaking world.

This oolite base, dedicated to the invincible Mithras, was found in the baths of the Villa de Caerleon, Walles.

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.