The New Mithraeum Database

The Mithraeum of Tazoult / Lambèse is one of the best preserved Mithras's temples in Africa.

TNMM101

The iconography of the platter of Ladenburg might evoke the food consumed during Mithraic banquets.

TNMM405

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.

In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult…

Roman emperor and philosopher known for his restoration of Hellenistic polytheism.

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

One of the two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, found in Meknès, Morocco.

TNMM656 – CIMRM 161

Two inscriptions by Aurelius Nectoreca, a follower of Mithras, have been found in Meknès, Morocco.

TNMM655 – CIMRM 160