The New Mithraeum Database

Mithraic priest and dedicator of the leontocephalic deity from the Fagan Mithraeum at Ostia.

A votive altar dedicated to Deus Invictus Mithras by Paterna, among the few women explicitly associated with Mithraic worship.

Landowner from Augustobriga, transferred to Tarraco by Antoninus Pius and owner of the villa of Els Munts and its Mithraeum.

Eight uninscribed sandstone altars from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior.

Sandstone altar with patera from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior, bearing a Greek inscription of uncertain reading, possibly a thanksgiving to Mithras.

Sandstone altar with patera from the rock sanctuary at Kreta, Moesia Inferior, bearing a Greek inscription dedicating an altar to Helios Mithras by Marcus Sikis Dossis.

Votive altar depicting Cautopates from the Roman city of Durostorum, modern-day Silistra in Bulgaria.

An altar found in the west corner of the sanctuary at Borcovicium (modern Housesteads) in 1898, recording a dedication to Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the god Cocidius and the genius of the place by soldiers of the Second Augustan Legion on garrison duty.

The bronze medallion, from Cilicia, shows Mithras Tauroctonus on the revers.

One of several dedications commissioned by the duumvir Marcus Antonius Victorinus in his Mithraeum of Aquincum, modern Budapest.

Aristocratic villa near Tarraco, capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, associated with Caius Valerius Avitus and a Mithraic sanctuary.

Fragment of yellowish chalcedony in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, formerly in the Millingen collection, depicting the standard tauroctony.

Rock-crystal gem in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, depicting Mithras as bull-slayer with the standard iconographic programme.

Gold ring amulet formerly in the Schlumberger Collection, published as Mithraic by Cumont and later identified as a healing charm against colic and diseases of the uterus.

An altar found in 1889 at Caldas de Reyes (ancient Iria Flavia) in Galicia, bearing a fragmentary dedication to Cautes, possibly by a person named Antonius.

Fragmentary inscription of unknown provenance, preserving only a pro salute formula and the name Attius Valerianus.

Pautalia became an important urban and thermal centre in the southwestern Balkans.

Iuvavum and Ovilava formed two important urban centres connected by the Norican road network.

Dionysopolis occupied a prominent position on the western coast of the Black Sea.

Almus occupied a strategic position on the southern bank of the Danube in western Moesia.