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The New Mithraeum Database

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Marcus Valerius Maximus

Priest of the invincible sun god Mithras at Mediolanum who described himself as a devoted student of astrology.

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P. Aelius Urbanus

Mithraic worshipper who records having built the sacrarium of the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus under the priest A. Sergius Eutychus in 3rd-century.

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Curius Iuvenalis

A Mithraic Pater from Caere known for initiating the Heliodromus Memmius Placidus.

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Memmius Placidus

A Heliodromus from Caere whose dedication provides the earliest epigraphic attestation of the sixth Mithraic grade.

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Tauroctony in the British Museum

The sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull was transported from Rome to London by Charles Standish in 1815.

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Slab with dedicatory poem from near S. Silvestro, Rome

Large marble slab found in 1648 near S. Silvestro in Capite, inscribed with a Latin dedicatory poem forming a cypher-acrostic for TAMESIUS and AUGENTIUS, with records of leontica and chrysos initiations, dated to 362 A.D.

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Inscription recording leontica initiations, S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription recording the transmission of the leontica grade by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 359 and 358 A.D.

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Inscription recording Mithraic initiations from S. Silvestro, Rome

Inscription CIL VI 750 recording the transmission of the Persica and Heliaca grades by Nonius Victor Olympius and Aurelius Victor Augentius at the Mithraeum of Piazza S. Silvestro in Capite, dated to 358 A.D.

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Nonius Victor Olympus

Roman senator and Pater Patrum who led the Olympii Mithraic community in fourth-century Rome.

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Prostrate figure fresco from Capua Vetere

Representation of a person lying prostrate on the ground between two other walking figures on the Mitreo of Santa Capua Vetere.

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Tamesius Augentius Olympius

Subtitle Late Roman senator who rose from pater to pater patrum in the Mithraic community of San Silvestro in Capite.

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Flavius Antistianus

Equestrian pater patrorum whose dedication to Cautes attests the involvement of Rome’s elite in Mithraism.

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Terentius Priscus

Roman devotee of the elusive Mithraic deity Nabarze, possibly identical with the associate of the Egyptian priest Arnouphis.

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Publius Nigidius Figulus

Roman statesman, scholar and Neo-Pythagorean philosopher associated with astrology, divination and ancient cosmology.

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Alcimus

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.

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Aurelius Sabinus

Equites and Pater at Mithraeum Santo Stefano Rotondo.

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Atimetus

Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.

Monumentum

Statue of Cautes dedicated by Hymnus

Marble statuette of the torchbearer Cautes bearing the votive inscription HYMNUS INBICTO, probably produced during the second or third century CE and preserved in an old European collection.

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Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius

Late Roman senator and governor of Numidia whose inscriptions present him as a Mithraic pater and initiate in several mystery cults.

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