The New Mithraeum Database

Sepulchral inscriptions from Lycaonia bearing the titles leo and aetos, previously interpreted as Mithraic grades but now understood as referring to tomb architecture.

The brick altar of the Mithraeum Menander was covered with marble slabs bearing a crescent and an inscription.

Late Roman funerary inscription from Antium commemorating the senator, governor of Numidia and Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius.

Inscription from a house wall at Apulum, Dacia, dedicated to Cautes by Gaius Herennius Ermes.

This votive silver plaque depicting Mithras was found at the site of Pessinus, Ballıhisar, in Turkey.

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.

Limestone altar dedicated to Cautes by the Roman optio Septimius Valentinus, discovered in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi in Pannonia Inferior.

Fragmentary limestone altar dedicated by Septimius Valentinus, an optio, probably discovered in Mithraeum IV at Aquincum.

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

This supposed Mithraic altar from Soulan in the Pyrenees was later identified as a modern forgery, including both the inscription and the alleged cave context in which it was said to have been discovered.

Marble altar dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras, found in Rome (in aedibus Maffaeiorum), set up in 183 A.D. by M. Ulpius Maximus, praepositus tabellariorum, together with its ornaments and Mithraic insignia, in fulfilment of a vow.

Marble altar dedicated at the Vatican Phrygianum in Rome by the Mithraic pater Alfenius Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius in 374 CE.

This limestone altar from Roman Dacia preserves a dedication to Mithras by a commander of the Ala II Pannoniorum.

These two parallel altars to the diophores were dedicated by the Pater and a Leo from the Mithraeum of S. Stefano Rotondo.

This sandstone altar was dedicated to the god Invictus by a certain Faustinus from Gimmeldingen.

This relief of Mithras as a bullkiller, probably found in Rome, has been part of the Palazzo Mattei collection since at least the end of the 18th century.

Three plaster altars within the main altar of the Mithraeum of Dura Europos, two of them with traces of fire and cinders.

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

This altar, found in Tazoult تازولت, Algeria, was dedicated to the god Sol Mithras by a certain Florus.

This damaged relief of Mithras killing the bull found in 1804 and formerly exposed at Gap, is now lost.