The New Mithraeum Database

Small woman's head, crowned with flowers.

Two small heads (H. 0.08-0.10) in Phrygian cap (Gallia, 308; 318 No. 41 and fig. 11), which seem to belong to a representation of Mithras tauroctone.

Remnants of a statue, found near the entrance.

According to MMM II 436 No.

CIL XIII 546; MMM II No.

MMM II No.

Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.

Roman emperor, son of the emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

Freedman, he offered a relief of Mithras as a bull killer for the well-being of his two former masters in Apulum.

Centurio of the Legio III Augusta, Florus dedicated an altar to the unconquered Sol Mithras in El Gahra.

Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

Roman emperor at the age of 14, from 218 to his death in 222, Elagabalus was a main priest of the sun god Elagabal in Emesa.

Pater at Caseggiato di Diana.

He erected one of the last known mithraea on his property.

Pater at Mainz.

Pater sacrorum and founder of the Mithraeum under the Basilica of S. Lorenzo.

Scholar, politician and a court astrologer to the Roman emperors Claudius, Nero and Vespasian.

Vir clarissimus and governor of Numidia, who dedicated a temple to Mithras with its images and ornaments in Cirta.

Praeses of the Noric Mediterranean province, of equestrian rank, restaured the Mithraeum of Virunum in 311.