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The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

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Small relief of primitive Tauroctony at Museo Capitolino

Small marble relief from the Aventine showing a primitive representation of Mithras slaying the bull, without torchbearers or Sol and Luna.

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Ulpius Egnatius Faventinus

Roman senator, public augur and Mithraic pater attested among the aristocratic dedications associated with the Vatican Phrygianum in 376 CE.

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Caelius Hilarianus

One of the clearest examples of the late Roman aristocracy’s involvement in the mysteries of Mithras and other initiatory cults during the fourth century.

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Agrestius

Pater patrum and magister of the Mithraic community associated with the Esquiline Mithraeum.

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Junia Zosime

Junia Zosime is known from an inscription discovered at Ostia recording the donation of a silver statue of the Virtus of the dendrophori.

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Varia Severa

Known from a disputed inscription discovered near Mediolanum, she has been tentatively linked to a Mithraic dedication, although the interpretation remains controversial.

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Altar of Varia Severa from Milan

Altar of Varia Severa from Mediolanum, modern Milan, one of the few women associated with a possible Mithraic dedication.

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Gaius Valerius Nicomedes

Ostian sacerdos remembered through his participation in the dedication of the monumental leontocephalic image erected under Commodus in 190 CE.

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Sextus Pompeius Maximus

Sextus Pompeius Maximus was an Ostian pater, later honoured as pater patrum, whose benefactions transformed the Aldobrandini Mithraeum and linked him to the city’s ferry guilds.

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Lucius Sextius Karus

His name was added to the main tauroctony sculpture of the Mitreo Fagan.

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Intaglio with Tauroctony and Lion with bee

This intaglio portrays Mithra slaying the bull on one side, and a lion with a bee, around seven stars, and inscription, on the other.

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Lucius Agrius Fructosus

Patron of the corpus stuppatorum and benefactor who financed the construction of the Mithraeum of Fructosus at Ostia.

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Tauroctony marble from Mitreo Fagan

This sculpture of Mithras killing the bull was dedicated to the “incomprehensible god” by a certain priest called Gaius Valerius Heracles.

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Lucius Sempronius

Offered a throne to Sol god in Ostia.

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Gaius Caelius Ermeros

Antistes and patron of the Mithraea of the Painted Walls and the Imperial Palace at Ostia.

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Lucius Agrius Calendius

Benefactor of the Imperial Palace Mithraeum and possible member of Ostia’s African community.

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Marcus Cerellius Hieronymus

Leading member of the Ostian Mithraic community, holder of the titles pater, sacerdos and antistes.

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Mitreo degli Animali

The Mithraeum of the Animals was decorated with a mosaic depicting a naked man, a cock, a raven, an scorpion, a snake and the head of the bull.

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Base of Cerellio Hieronymo from Ostia

Small marble base recording a donation to M. Cerellio Hieronymo, pater and sacerdos, on behalf of an antistes who dedicated objects to the god, from the Mitreo degli Animali at Ostia.

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Gaius Valerius Vitalis

Mithraic priest and dedicator of the leontocephalic deity from the Fagan Mithraeum at Ostia.

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