This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Quaere

The New Mithraeum Database

Find news, articles, monuments, persons, books and videos related to the Cult of Mithras

Your search Al. N. Oikonomides gave 3559 results.

Monumentum

Mithraic Sol altar with backlight of Bingen

The altar of the Sun god belongs to the typology of the openwork altar to be illuminated from behind.

Monumentum

Marble cap from the Mitreo degli Animali

Marble cap mentioned by Visconti, subsequently identified as certainly belonging to the finds of the Mitreo degli Animali rather than the Mitreo del Palazzo Imperiale, Ostia.

Monumentum

Torso dedicated to Mithras

Marble torso found at Ostia in 1912 between the Decumanus and the Via dei Molini, dedicated to Mithras by a certain Atilius Glyco.

Monumentum

Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares

Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

Monumentum

Dedication of Florius Hermadio from Ostia

Marble revetment inscription from the cult niche of the Mitreo della Planta Pedis recording a dedication to Sol Invictus Mithras by the priest Florius Hermadio for the welfare of two emperors.

Monumentum

Dedication to Mithras from Pax Iulia

Marble inscription recording the construction of a Mithraic meeting place and the donation of a crater by Titus Flavius Artemidorus.

Syndexios

Titus Martialius Candidus

Member of a Mithraic community at Stockstadt who dedicated altars to Cautes and Cautopates.

Monumentum

Altar from Grumentum

This altar from Grumentum in Lucania was dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras by Titus Flavius Saturninus, an evocatus in imperial service.

Monumentum

Altar of Titullus from Rudchester

This sandstone altar from the Mithraeum of Vindobala (modern Rudchester) preserves a dedication to the Invincible Mithras by P. Aelius Titullus, prefect of a cohort.

Monumentum

Decorated altar with rock-birth scene from the Rudchester Mithraeum

A decorated altar from the Mithraeum at Vindobala (modern Rudchester), with the letters DEO crowned with vittae on the shaft, surrounded by palm-branches, a representation of Mithras' rock-birth on the capital, and on the front of the die a naked figure grasping a bull's horns…

Monumentum

Limestone votive altar with Sol head from Pula

A small limestone votive altar from Pola (modern Pula) bearing on its front face a damaged relief head of a youthful Sol with long curly hair, above which is carved the inscription Soli and below the dedicatory text by Atticus (No. 757).

Monumentum

Altar of Varia Severa, daughter of Quintus, from Milan

An altar found at Milan (ancient Mediolanum), dedicated to the Invincible Mithras by Varia Severa, daughter of Quintus; because the dedicant is a woman, Cumont suggests it may alternatively be dedicated to the Dis Manibus.

Locus

Val di Non (Val di Non)

Val di Non is an Alpine valley in Trentino associated with Roman-period finds.

Locus

Zwiefalten (Zwiefalten)

Zwiefalten belongs to the upland territory historically associated with the province of Raetia.

Locus

Thessalonike (Thessaloniki)

Thessalonike became one of the principal urban centres of the Balkans and the Via Egnatia corridor.

Locus

Rohr im Kremstal (Rohr im Kremstal)

Rohr im Kremstal belongs to the Alpine hinterland associated with Roman Noricum.

Locus

Halle (Halle)

Halle lies within the broader northern frontier zone of the Roman imperial world.

Locus

Dolna-Malina (Dolna Malina)

Dolna-Malina lies within the inland territory historically associated with Roman Thrace.

Locus

Callatis (Mangalia)

Callatis developed as an important Black Sea port on the western coast of the Pontus Euxinus.

Locus

Alesia (Alise-Sainte-Reine)

Alesia became famous as the site of Caesar’s decisive siege during the Gallic Wars.

Back to Top