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The New Mithraeum Database

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia preserves evidence shaped by military movement, eastern frontier dynamics and Anatolian religious landscapes.

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Armenia

Armenia occupied a strategic position between Roman and Iranian religious worlds during the centuries of Mithraic expansion.

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Asia

Roman Asia preserves a rich and diverse body of Mithraic evidence connected to the major cities of western Anatolia.

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Bithynia et Pontus

Bithynia and Pontus preserve important evidence for the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Black Sea and northwestern Anatolia.

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Aurelius Iustinianus

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

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Mithraeum IV of Ptuj

A probable Mithraic sanctuary at Poetovio, identified by Vermaseren as the so-called Mithraeum IV on the basis of four associated inscriptions.

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Marcus Ulpius Maximus

Supervisor of the imperial couriers who offered an elaborate votive altar and ritual insignia to Mithras in Rome under Commodus.

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Hector Corneliorum

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta by means of a ‘divine vision’.

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Ulpius Egnatius Faventinus

Late Roman senator, public augur and Mithraic pater active in the second half of the fourth century CE.

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Pottery depicting Mithras

This fragment of pottery depicting Mithras may have come from Gallia.

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Tauroctony on intaglio

Large intaglio engraved with Mithras as bull slayer surrounded by a peculiar version of Cautes and Cautopates and other celestial deities.

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Tauroctony relief from Fleischmann Collection

This relief of Mithras killing the bull includes an unusual owl at the feet of Cautopates and a cock next to Cautes.

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Relief fragment from Ptuj

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

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Lion relief from Nemrut Dağı

The lion relief from Nemrut Dag has the moon and several stars over his body.

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Marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates from Rusicade

Two marble statues of Cautes and Cautopates discovered in the Mithraeum of Rusicade, accompanied by symbolic animals including a lion, scorpion, dolphin and bird.

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Tauroctony from Santo Domingo de Silos

Mithras slaying the bull appears as the sign of Capricorn in a zodiacal sequence on the Pórtico del Cordero of the Abbey de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Spain.

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Mithra en dialogue (1) - Frantz Grenet (2025-2026)

Séminaire du 5 mai 2026 : The Lord of the Covenant: Mihr the judge and the celebration of Mihragān.

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Cautopates with a hooked stick from Nida

This Cautopates from Nida carries the usual downward torch in his right hand and a hooked stick in his left.

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Statue of a mother goddess with child

This unusual statue in Mithraic iconography of a mother nursing a child was found in the vestibule of the Mithraeum of Dieburg.

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Candelabrum of Caernarfon

The Caernarfon candelabrum is a reconstruction of several iron pieces found in the Mithraeum of Caernarfon.

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