The New Mithraeum Database in Romania

Apulum, now within Alba Iulia, was a Roman settlement first mentioned by the mathematician, astrologer and geographer Ptolemy. Its name comes from the Dacian Apoulon.

Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa was the capital and the largest city of Roman Dacia, later named Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa after the former Dacian capital, located some 40 km away. The city was destroyed by the Goths.

As usual, the solar god rises a dagger with one of his hands while emerges from the rock.

TNMM434 – CIMRM 2184, 507

This altar was erected by Hermadio, who also signed other monuments in Dacia and even in Rome.

TNMM578 – CIMRM 2146, 574

The Cautopates with scorpion found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa includes an inscription of a certain slave known as Synethus.

TNMM521 – CIMRM 2120, 606

The rock of Mithra's birth in the Petrogenia of Sarmizegetusa is surrounded by a snake.

TNMM436 – CIMRM 2134, 632

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull incorporates the scene of the god carrying the bull and its birth from a rock.

TNMM432 – CIMRM 2063, 1217

The Mithraeum of Slaveni was discovered in 1837 on the right bank of the river Olt, in Romanati district.

TNMM74, 2292

The sculpture of Dobrosloveni, Romania, has a hole from where water flowed.

TNMM281, 564

Mithras born from the rock with a snake raising in coils around it.

TNMM213 – CIMRM 1991, 826

Altar depicting the god Mithras or Cautes on a bull.

TNMM155 – CIMRM 2186, 610