The New Mithraeum Database

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

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Lifelong pater of Mithras in Anazarbus, holding the civic title Father of the Homeland.

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commagene.

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

Centurio frumentarius probably from Tarraco, who served in the Legio VII Gemina located in Emerita Agusta.

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Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

Es bien sabido que Mitra nació de una roca. Sin embargo, menos se ha escrito acerca del padre del dios solar, y especialmente sobre cómo lo concibió.

It is well known that Mithras was born from a rock. However, less has been written about the father of the solar god, and especially about how he conceived him.

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

TNMM811 – CIMRM 8

Hamadan is a city in western Iran.

A gold coin depicting a bearded god with a crescent facing another god with a nimbus and a radiate crown, identified as Mithras by Vermaseren.

TNMM807 – CIMRM 3

This dedicatory inscription by Aurelius Seleucus, found in Cilicia, aligns with Plutarch’s account of Cilician pirates performing foreign sacrifices and secret rites of Mithras.

TNMM800 – CIMRM 27

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

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Pessinus was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia.

Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.

Terracotta tablets depicting a Taurombolium by Attis which might be at the origins of the mithraic Tauroctony iconography.

TNMM272 – CIMRM 11, 12

This gold coin depicts Kanishka I on one side and Mithras standing on the other side.

TNMM554 – CIMRM 1

Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.

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