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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Heracles

Pater and priest of the Fagan Mithtraeum with several monuments to his name.

Syndexios

Valerius Magio

Valerius was a discharged veteran was a worshipper of the Undefeated Mithras in Künzing.

 
Textum

Notes on a new Cautes statue from Apulum (jud. Alba / RO)

The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.

 
Monumentum

Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum

The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.

 
Textum

Oracle against the Christians under Galerius

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic oracles in a cave and was urged to initiate the persecution of the Christians.

 
Monumentum

Tauroctonia de Walbrook

The image of Mithras killing the bull, found near Walbrook, is surrounded by a Zoadiac circle.

 
Locus

Malvesatium

Skelani (Serbian Cyrillic: Скелани) is a village in the municipality of Srebrenica, in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 
Locus

Italica

Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania; its site is close to the town of Santiponce in the province of Seville, Spain.

 
Locus

Malaca

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

 
Monumentum

Second phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

This second relief depicting a phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been positioned alongside its counterpart atop pillars that greet visitors to the Mithras shrine.

 
Monumentum

Phallus relief from the Mithraeum of Tiddis

The phallus from Tiddis, Algeria, has been represented as a cock.

 
Textum

Life of Alexander

In Plutarch’s Life of Alexander, the grieving Darius binds the eunuch Tireus by the light of Mithras to reveal the truth about his captive wife Statira, a solemn appeal that leads to unexpected praise for Alexander’s honor and restraint.

 
Video

Mithra dans les provinces occidentales de l’Empire romain : rencontre avec Philippe Roy

Philippe Roy, docteur en Sciences de l’Antiquité, présente dans cette vidéo la réception du culte de Mithra dans les provinces occidentales de l’Empire romain.

 
Monumentum

Altar for Cautopates from Ptuj

Altar for Cautopates.

 
Monumentum

Fragments of a column base from Hamadan

The base of the column bears an inscription that records the rebuilding of a palace at Ectabana ’by the favour of Ahuramaza, Anahita and Mithra’.

 
Monumentum

Tablet of Antiochus I from Samsat

"The remaining figure on this monument, Herakles, was previously misidentified as Apollo on this remarkable black basalt tablet from Samsat, known in Roman times as Samosata.

 
Monumentum

Slab from the Palace of Darius at Persepolis

This plaque, located on the western staircase of the Palace of Darius, mentions the god Mithra together with Ahura Mazda as protectors of King Artaxerxes III Ochus.

 
Notitia

The Mirror of Mithras

Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

 
Monumentum

Altar of Ceanu Mic

This limestone altar to Sol Invictus Mithra was found at Turda in 1905.

 
Monumentum

Medallions with Mithras from Trapezus

These bronze medallions associates the image of several Roman emperors with that of Mithras, usually as a rider, in the province Pontus.

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