The New Mithraeum Database

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

TNMM101

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…

Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.

Born in North Africa, he dedicated an inscription to the unconquered god Mithras, found in the Forum of Lambasis.

Roman emperor and philosopher known for his attempt to restore Hellenistic polytheism.

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.

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

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.’

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

Breton centurion stationed in Volubilis, Mauretania Tingitana, known for his loyalty to Mithras and Commodus.

Volubilis is a partly-excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II.

The Mithraic nature of the frescoes of Oea, according to the scholars Cumont and Vermaseren, is now questioned.

TNMM575 – CIMRM 113, 114

Oea was an ancient city in modern-day Tripoli, Libya, founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC. It became a Roman-Berber colony in the second half of the 2nd century BC.

The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.

TNMM519 – CIMRM 1243

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

TNMM405

Statue (H. 2.03) in red, local limestone.

TNMM851 – CIMRM 108

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TNMM852 – CIMRM 109