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The New Mithraeum Database

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Syndexios

Elagabalus

Roman emperor at the age of 14, from 218 to his death in 222, Elagabalus was a main priest of the sun god Elagabal in Emesa.

Syndexios

Caracalla

Emperor Caracalla ordered one of Rome’s largest temples to the god Mithras to be built in the baths bearing his name.

Locus

Alexandria (Alexandria)

Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in April 331 BC as one of his many city foundations. After he captured the Egyptian Satrapy from the Persians, Alexander wanted to build a large Greek city on Egypt’s coast that would bear his name.

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Cales (Calvi Risorta)

Cales was an ancient city of Campania, in today's comune of Calvi Risorta in southern Italy, belonging originally to the Aurunci/Ausoni, on the Via Latina.

Locus

Italica (Santiponce)

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

Locus

Malvesatium (Skelani)

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

Provincia

Dacia Malvensis

Within the southern sectors of Roman Dacia, Dacia Malvensis preserves evidence linked to military mobility and provincial urbanisation.

Monumentum

Possible leontocephalic relief from the Midi

This small and highly questionable relief from southern France may depict a winged leontocephalic figure seated.

Provincia

Syria-Palestina

Syria-Palestina occupied a complex religious landscape shaped by imperial administration, pilgrimage and eastern Mediterranean mobility.

Provincia

Galatia

Galatia occupied the central Anatolian crossroads through which military movement and eastern provincial networks intersected.

Provincia

Dalmatia

Dalmatia connected the Adriatic world to the Balkan interior through maritime routes, military mobility and provincial urban networks.

Provincia

Alpes Graiae

The high mountain routes of Alpes Graiae formed part of the Alpine corridors connecting Italy, Gaul and the northwestern provinces.

Provincia

Alpes Poenninae

Alpes Poenninae controlled important Alpine routes through which military movement and religious practices circulated between Gaul and Italy.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Rožanec

According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.

Regio

Galatia

Galatia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by central Anatolian routes and eastern provincial networks.

Regio

Dalmatia

Dalmatia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by Adriatic routes, military movement and provincial urban centres.

Regio

Alpes

The Alpine regions preserve scattered Mithraic evidence associated with military circulation and strategic routes across the western empire.

Monumentum

Alabaster tauroctony fragment from Cologne

Fragment of an alabaster relief from Cologne with part of a tauroctony scene. Only the tip of Mithras’ Phrygian cap and small narrative details above are preserved.

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.

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.

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