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The New Mithraeum Database

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Locus

Angera (Angera)

Roman settlement on the southern shore of Lacus Verbanus (Lake Maggiore) in Transpadana, known for Mithraic inscriptions and a cave sanctuary traditionally identified as a Mithraeum.

Monumentum

Possible Mithraeum remains from San Zeno, near Trento

Wall remnants found deep underground at San Zeno near Trento, possibly indicating a Mithraeum, discovered alongside Roman coins, lost bronze figures and a small gold disc decorated with an ear of corn or a sword.

Monumentum

Inscription of Marius from San Zeno di Romedio, near Trento

A fragmentary inscription on the lower border of the limestone tauroctony relief from San Zeno di Romedio near Trento, partially reading a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by Marius.

Monumentum

Limestone tauroctony relief from San Zeno di Romedio, near Trento

A limestone low-relief tauroctony fragment found in 1869 near the entrance of the valley of San Zeno di Romedio in the Trentino, now in the Museum at Trento, showing a primitive Mithras bullkiller with Cautes upraised, the bust of Luna and an inscription on the lower border…

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief fragment from San Zeno am Nonsberg, Trentino

A coarse-grained yellowish-white marble tauroctony relief fragment found walled in at San Zeno am Nonsberg in the Trentino in 1911, now in the Museum Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck, showing part of Mithras slaying the bull and Cautes raising a flaming torch.

Monumentum

Inscription "Deo Invicto Mithrae" from San Zeno, near Trento

A brief inscription reading "Deo Invicto Mithrae", found in the ruins of the Castello di Tuenno near San Zeno at the entry to the Tovel valley in Trentino, alongside the decorated relief No. 723.

Socius

Fahim Ennouhi

Scholar specializing in the history of ancient North Africa, with a particular interest in the Oriental cults (Anatolian, Egyptian, Syrian, and Iranian) that spread throughout this region.

Locus

San Zeno (Tuenno)

San Zeno is a locality near Tuenno in the Val di Non, where Mithraic material attributed to Roman Raetia was discovered.

Monumentum

Red pottery fragments with bull and lion from Trier

Two red pottery fragments from a plate found near the Schützenstrasse at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica, showing the forepart of a horned bull and the hindquarters of a lion, possibly Mithraic in character.

Monumentum

White marble Mithras head in Phrygian cap from Trier

A fragment of a white marble head in a Phrygian cap, facing right, probably representing Mithras, with an uncertain find-spot but likely from Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica.

Monumentum

Bronze votive slab dedicated to Deo Invicto from Heiligkreuz near Trier

A bronze votive slab bearing a dedication to the unconquered god, found on a hill at Heiligkreuz near the proposed Mithraeum at Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier) in Belgica.

Monumentum

Coin hoard from Saarburg Mithraeum

A collection of 284 coins, spanning from 254 to 395 AD and mostly of the fourth century, found in the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, indicating that the sanctuary was founded under the Severan dynasty and destroyed in the fourth century…

Monumentum

Bound skeleton found on main relief fragment at Saarburg Mithraeum

A skeleton of a man aged approximately thirty to forty years, with arms tied behind his back and wrists bound with an iron chain, found lying on a fragment of the main relief at the back of the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica…

Monumentum

Fragmentary inscription from Saarburg Mithraeum

A fragmentary inscription from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, recording a dedicant's gift made a second time.

Monumentum

Naked torso possibly of rock-birth Mithras from Saarburg Mithraeum

A naked torso of a robust figure, preserved as far as the navel with head and arms lost, from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, possibly representing the rock-birth of Mithras.

Monumentum

Fragment of Mercury with bird from Saarburg Mithraeum

A fragment from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, showing a standing naked man with a bird, possibly a cock, on his left arm, tentatively identified as Mercury, with the head, hands, and parts of the legs lost.

Monumentum

Relief fragment of naked man from Saarburg Mithraeum

The right lower corner of a relief fragment from the Mithraeum at Pons Saravi (modern Saarburg) in Belgica, showing a standing naked man holding his hands crosswise on his breast, with the upper part and head lost.

Monumentum

Dedication to Deo Soli Invicto Mithrae from Vasio

A brief dedicatory inscription to Deus Sol Invictus Mithras, found at Vasio (modern Vaison-la-Romaine) in Narbonensis.

Monumentum

Cautes statuette raising torch from Eauze

A white marble statuette of Cautes, dressed in a long cloak and raising his torch with both hands without being cross-legged, found near Eauze (ancient Elusa) in the Armagnac region of Aquitania.

Monumentum

Inscription of Litorius Pacatianus, beneficiarius, from the Housesteads Mithraeum

An altar with a praefericulum on the right side and a patera on the left, found at the Mithraeum at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1822, recording a vow fulfilled to Sol Invictus Mithras Saecularis by Litorius Pacatianus, beneficiarius consulis, for himself and his family…

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