The New Mithraeum Database

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

Merchant Navy Captain BA Hons (English)

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

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.

This is one of the two torchbearers, probably Cautes, transformed into Paris, now in the British Museum.

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

The head this statue of Cautes from Carrawburgh has been lost.

This plaque, now on display in the British Museum, may have come from the Aldobrandini Mithraeum in Ostia.

Student at the University of Edinburgh

Lecturer in Ancient History

The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

The Mithraeum of Caernarfon, in Walles, was built in three phases during the 3rd century, and destroyed at the end of the 4th.