The New Mithraeum Database

Veteran of the legion XIII and member of the Fabia tribe.

Doce siglos separan el ocaso del mitraísmo romano del alba de la masonería. Doce siglos durante los cuales, los misterios de Mitra han permanecido más secretos que nunca.

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta 'by means of a divine vision', something unusual in Hispania.

This marble relief of Mithras killing the bull was made by a freedman who dedicated it to his old masters.

TNMM638 – CIMRM 1935, 1936

The Mitreo della crypta neapolitana was used a des legends about its use, from a cult place devoted to Priapus to celebrate Aphrodite.

TNMM219

Apulum, now within Alba Iulia, was a Roman settlement first mentioned by the mathematician, astrologer and geographer Ptolemy. Its name comes from the Dacian Apoulon.

This relief of Mithras killing the bull is unique in the Apulum Mithraic repertoire because of its inscription in Greek.

TNMM667 – CIMRM 2002

Dioscorus is a freedman from the Greek-speaking part of the Empire who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mythra.

Euhemerus was a Greek or Greco-Oriental man of modest status.