The New Mithraeum Database

A Story Waiting To Pierce You offers a breathtaking insight into our past and our future as human beings. For the first time in centuries it traces the ancient threads that connect Mongolia, Tibet and Native Americans to the very origins of western civili…

King of the Greco-Iranian Kingdom of Commenage

Pater Patrum at Emerita Augusta

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

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.

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.

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

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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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