The New Mithraeum Database

Le culte romain de Mithra. Entre réalités antiques et fantasmes contemporains ! Par Richard Veymiers, directeur du Domaine et Musée royal de Mariemont.

Las excavaciones llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento arqueológico romano de la villa de Mithra, en Cabra (Córdoba), han deparado el excepcional hallazgo de un mitreo, o zona destinada al culto al dios Mithra, cuya estatua fue descubierta hace unos 70 años…

I have listed all the novels about Mithras and Mithraism that I know of. Do you know any others? Crypto-Mithraic would also work!

Did Apuleius explain his very own initiation into the Mysteries of Mithras in The Golden Ass? Apuleius' The Golden Ass is one of the most famous and entertaining novels of antiquity. Among his adventures, Lucius is initiated into the mysteries of Isis…

The Mithraeum of the Snakes preserves paintings of serpents, representing Genius Loci, part of an older private sanctuary, which were respected in the temple of Mithras.

just got a copy of the Mithras conspirancy and can't stop reading!

A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

Some authors have speculated that the flying figure dressed in oriental style and holding a globe could be Mithras.

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Jean-Christophe Piot a participé à la réalisation de l'exposition 'Le mystère Mithra' en réalisant des pastilles sonores sur certaines œuvres de l'exposition.

The lion-headed figure, Aion, from Mérida, wears oriental knickers fastened at the waist by a cinch strap.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mithras But Were Afraid to Ask.

The Mithras of Cabra is the only full preserved Tauroctony sculpture found in Spain yet.

The monument was dedicated by two brothers, one of them being the Pater of his community.

The Mithraeum of Frutosus was in a temple assigned to the guild of the stuppatores.

This tabula marmorea was consecrated by a certain slave Vitorinus in Tibur, nowadays Tivoli, near Rome.

The Mithraeum of Aldobrandini was excavated in 1924 by G. Calza on the premises belonging to the Aldobrandini family.

White marble relief depicting Mithras slaying the bull, dedicated by Atimetus.

The Digital Atlas of Roman Sanctuaries in the Danubian Provinces (DAS) is the first comprehensive and open access representation of sacralised spaces in the area.

This marble base found in Angera in 1868 bears the inscription of two people who reached the degree of Leo.