This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Quaere

The New Mithraeum Database

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

Your search As Salhiyah gave 2397 results.

Monumentum

Tauroctony relief from Naples

This marble tauroctony relief, probably originating from Naples, depicts Mithras slaying the bull within a cave-like setting, accompanied by the usual animals and celestial busts.

Regio

Persia

Persia occupies a central place in the intellectual and historical background of Mithraic studies.

Regio

Lycia et Pamphylia

Lycia and Pamphylia preserve Mithraic evidence linked to southern Anatolian maritime and urban networks.

Regio

Macedonia

Macedonia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by major Balkan routes and long-standing urban traditions.

Regio

Moesia

Moesia preserves a strongly militarised body of Mithraic evidence along the Danubian frontier of the empire.

Regio

Dalmatia

Dalmatia preserves Mithraic evidence shaped by Adriatic routes, military movement and provincial urban centres.

Regio

Armenia

Armenia occupied a strategic position between Roman and Iranian religious worlds during the centuries of Mithraic expansion.

Regio

Bithynia et Pontus

Bithynia and Pontus preserve important evidence for the diffusion of Mithraic cults across the Black Sea and northwestern Anatolia.

Regio

Alpes

The Alpine regions preserve scattered Mithraic evidence associated with military circulation and strategic routes across the western empire.

Monumentum

Inscription of Artaxerxes II from Ecbatana

Inscription from Hamadan where the ’great king’ Artaxerxes mentions Ahuramazda, Anahita, and Mithra as guardians.

Syndexios

Aurelius Iustinianus

Late Roman dux associated with the restoration of the so-called Mithraeum IV of Poetovio.

Monumentum

Mithraeum IV of Ptuj

A probable Mithraic sanctuary at Poetovio, identified by Vermaseren as the so-called Mithraeum IV on the basis of four associated inscriptions.

Monumentum

Altars from the Phrygianum of the Vatican by two clarissimi

Both of them were discovered in 1609 in the foundations of the façade of the church of San Pietro, Rome.

Syndexios

Lucius Apuleius Marcellus

North African author, Platonic philosopher and rhetorician associated with the Mithraic milieu of Ostia.

Syndexios

Marcus Ulpius Maximus

Supervisor of the imperial couriers who offered an elaborate votive altar and ritual insignia to Mithras in Rome under Commodus.

Syndexios

Hector Corneliorum

Hector erected an altar to Mithras in Emerita Augusta by means of a ‘divine vision’.

Socius

Frederic Bazin

Professeur de Lettres Modernes et Classiques

Monumentum

Limestone tauroctony relief from Aquincum

This limestone tauroctony from Aquincum preserves Mithras slaying the bull together with Cautopates, the serpent, the scorpion, and the legs of the raven.

Monumentum

Fragmentary tauroctony from Solin

This large limestone fragment from Roman Salona preserves the hind part of the bull together with Mithras’ foot and traces of his red tunic.

Monumentum

Altar with donor lists from Solin

This inscribed limestone altar from Roman Salona preserves several lists of ministers associated with the Tritones collegium during the Tetrarchic period.

Back to Top