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The New Mithraeum Database

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

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Monumentum

Smiling Mithras head from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Small marble head from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting a smiling Mithras in Phrygian cap with a profiled reverse — one of the most expressive Mithraic heads from the Danubian provinces.

Monumentum

Winged bull torso from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Marble torso from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, probably representing a winged, reclining bull with two vertical attachment ligaments on the reverse.

Monumentum

Twin column bases from Heddernheim

Pair of sandstone bases with small columns on the front, carved with a staircase on the reverse, from Mithraeum I at Heddernheim, ancient Nida

Regio

Gallia

Roman Gallia preserves one of the largest and most geographically diverse corpora of Mithraic evidence in the western empire.

Provincia

Tarraconensis

Across Tarraconensis, Mithraic evidence appears in diverse urban, military and Mediterranean environments of Roman Hispania.

Provincia

Syria-Palestina

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

Provincia

Syria-Coele

Syria-Coele formed one of the principal urban and cultural centres of the Roman Near East where diverse religious traditions coexisted.

Regio

Asia

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

Syndexios

Nonius Victor Olympus

Pater Patrum and Senator. He was also the patriarch of the Olympian dynasty, overseeing a Mithraic community in the centre of Rome.

Syndexios

Atimetus

Imperial slave and an overseer of the Imperial estates who dedicated a Tauroctony to the Invincible god Sol.

Monumentum

Gnostic amulet with Mithras monogram

This silver amulet depicts Abraxas on one side and the first verses of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew on the other.

Textum

Mithra et Porphyre. Quand sculpture et philosophie se rejoignent

Interpreting the Bas-relief of Mithras Tauroctonos from Osterburken in the Light of Porphyry’s Treatise, The Cave of the Nymphs.

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