This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Quaere

The New Mithraeum Database

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

Your selection gave 58 results.

Syndexios

Mareinos

Petitor of the Mithraic congregation at Dura Europos, possibly associated with the decoration of the sanctuary.

Monumentum

Column with inscription from Dura Europos

The inscription pays homage to the emperor, probably Caracalla, to Mithras, the fathers, the petitor and the syndexioi.

Syndexios

Theodoros

One of the two patres named in a communal dedication of the Mithraic congregation at Dura Europos during the reign of Caracalla.

Syndexios

Libeianos

Pater of the Mithraic community of Dura Europos attested in a communal dedication to Mithras and the syndexioi during the reign of Caracalla.

Monumentum

Graffito naming Maximus magus at Dura-Europos

Engraved inscription naming Maximus as magus, from column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Syndexios

Ethpheni

Strategos of the Palmyrene archers at Dura Europos and dedicator of the earliest tauroctony relief.

Syndexios

Zenobius

Son of the Palmyrene archer commander Iarhiboles and dedicator of the 170–171 CE tauroctony relief from Dura-Europos.

Syndexios

Iουλιανος

Soldier of the Legio XVI Flavia Firma Antoniana stationed at Dura Europos and known from a dedication to Zeus Helios Mithras and Tourmasgade.

Monumentum

Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

Monumentum

List of Mithraic grades from Dura-Europos

Partial list of Mithraic initiatory grade titles attested in inscriptions from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos.

Monumentum

Graffito with eisodos and exodos at Dura-Europos

Minute engraved inscription with the words eisodos and exodos (entrance and exit), from column 3 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Monumentum

Main Tauroctony relief from Dura Europos

The main relief of Mithras killing the bull from the Mithraeum of Dura Europos includes three persons named Zenobius, Jariboles and Barnaadath.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Dura Europos

The most emblematic of the Syrian Mithraea was discovered in 1933 by a team led by the Russian historian Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff.

Syndexios

Kamerios

One of the few Mithraists whose progression from Nymphus to Miles and eventually to Pater may be traced epigraphically at Dura Europos.

Monumentum

Relief head of Mithras from the Syrian coast

Fragment of a white marble relief depicting the head of Mithras with Phrygian cap and nimbus, found on the Syrian coast between Lattakieh and Tartous, first half of 2nd century A.D.

Monumentum

Wall plaster inscription fragment from Dura-Europos

Fragmentary inscription on wall plaster from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria, with partially legible text.

Monumentum

Graffito naming Antoninus at Dura-Europos

Engraved Nâma inscription addressed to Antoninus, a pious syndexios, from the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Monumentum

Dipinto naming the fathers of Dura-Europos

Painted inscription naming the patres and other initiates of the Mithraeum, above the podium in the south-west corner of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Monumentum

Graffito with Nâma salutation from Dura-Europos

Graffito bearing the Mithraic salutation Nâma, engraved on column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Back to Top