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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Pinnes

He was a soldier of the Cohors I Belgarum, probably of Dalmatian origin, who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Aufustianis.

Monumentum

Statue of Cautes dedicated by Hymnus

Marble statuette of the torchbearer Cautes bearing the votive inscription HYMNUS INBICTO, probably produced during the second or third century CE and preserved in an old European collection.

Syndexios

Theodoros

One of the two patres named in a communal dedication of the Mithraic congregation at Dura Europos during the reign of Caracalla.

Syndexios

Libeianos

Pater of the Mithraic community of Dura Europos attested in a communal dedication to Mithras and the syndexioi during the reign of Caracalla.

Monumentum

Graffito naming Maximus magus at Dura-Europos

Engraved inscription naming Maximus as magus, from column 1 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Syndexios

Ethpheni

Strategos of the Palmyrene archers at Dura Europos and dedicator of the earliest tauroctony relief.

Syndexios

Zenobius

Son of the Palmyrene archer commander Iarhiboles and dedicator of the 170–171 CE tauroctony relief from Dura-Europos.

Monumentum

Fresco ‘City of Darkness’ from Hawarte

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

Liber

Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future

Proceedings from an international conference on the ancient city of Dura-Europos (Syria) held at Yale University in 2022, with papers that explore its cultural heritage through multidisciplinary research approaches.

Monumentum

Graffito with eisodos and exodos at Dura-Europos

Minute engraved inscription with the words eisodos and exodos (entrance and exit), from column 3 of the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos, Syria.

Syndexios

Kamerios

One of the few Mithraists whose progression from Nymphus to Miles and eventually to Pater may be traced epigraphically at Dura Europos.

Syndexios

Gaius Rufius Euctatus

Physician and Pater Patrum of the Mithraic community of Vieu, known from an altar dedicated by his son Gaius Rufius Virilis.

Syndexios

Gaius Rufius Virilis

Known from an altar dedicated to his father Gaius Rufius Eutactus, Pater Patrum of the Mithraic community of Vieu.

Syndexios

Potentianus

Pater who consecrated the Mithraeum of Gimmeldingen during the final phase of Mithraic worship in the Rhineland.

Monumentum

Ara of the Mithraeum of Lugo

Victorius Victorious, centurion of the Legio VII, erected the altar in honour of the Lugo garrison and of the Victorius Secundus and Victor, his freedmen.

Syndexios

Elaine

Imperial slave who, together with Successus, fulfilled a vow to Cautes, providing one of the earliest possible attestations of Mithraic worship in Hispania.

Monumentum

Lion-headed Aion from Sidon

The controversial Italian journalist Edmon Durighello discovered this marble statue of a young naked Aion in 1887.

Locus

Nuzi (Yorghan Tepe)

Nuzi at modern Yorghan Tepe, Iraq was an ancient Mesopotamian city 12 kilometers southwest of the city of Arrapha and 70 kilometers southwest of Sātu Qala, located near the Tigris river.

Syndexios

Blastia

Dedicator of a rare altar jointly honouring Mithras and Silvanus at Emona, whose ambiguous name has fuelled debate over whether the dedicant was a man or a woman.

Syndexios

Varia Severa

Known from a disputed inscription discovered near Mediolanum, she has been tentatively linked to a Mithraic dedication, although the interpretation remains controversial.

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