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The New Mithraeum Database

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

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Locus

Benifaió (Benifaió)

The Roman remains of Benifaió, or Benifayó in Spanish, are located on the outskirts of the city. Of particular interest is a rustic villa inhabited between the 1st and 4th centuries according to the numismatic and ceramic remains found.

Locus

Boka Kotorska (Kotor)

The Bay of Kotor formed an important maritime zone linking the Adriatic coast with the inland Balkans.

Monumentum

Mithraeum of Housesteads

The Housesteads Mithraeum is an underground temple, now burried, discovered in 1822 in a slope of the Chapel Hill, outside of the Roman Fort at the Hadrian's Wall.

Monumentum

Relief fragment with Cautopates from Aïtodor

Corner fragment preserving the feet and lowered torch of the Mithraic torchbearer Cautopates.

Monumentum

Relief fragment with Sol and Cautopates from Aïtodor

Only the left section survives, showing Sol above the torchbearer Cautopates beside the cave border.

Monumentum

Mithraic inscription from Anazarbus

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.

Monumentum

Column of Callimorphus

Callimorphus dedicated this image of the sun god to the invincible sun ’Mythra’.

Video

Reconstructing the Roman Mystery Religion of Mithras

Our modern understanding of Mithraism, though, depends largely on a few short (and very problematic) literary mentions, mostly written by the cult’s Christian rivals.

Monumentum

Altar of Vieu

This altar was dedicated by a son to his father, one of the few Patres Patrum recorded in the western provinces.

Syndexios

Messius Artemidorus

Magister of a Bracaran sodalicium associated with the cult of Mithras in Roman Lusitania.

Monumentum

Dedication to Mithras from Pax Iulia

Marble inscription recording the construction of a Mithraic meeting place and the donation of a crater by Titus Flavius Artemidorus.

Syndexios

Titus Martialius Candidus

Member of a Mithraic community at Stockstadt who dedicated altars to Cautes and Cautopates.

Monumentum

Mithraeum II of Aquincum in Victorinus’s house

This temple of Mithras in Aquincum was located within the private house of the decurio Marcus Antonius Victorinus.

Locus

Cuicul (Djemila)

Roman colonial city of Numidia, later known as Djémila, renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved late antique urban remains.

Syndexios

Symphorus

Donor of the monumental tauroctony that served as the central cult image of Mithraeum IV in Aquincum.

Syndexios

Valerian

Roman emperor from 253 to 260, he was taken captive by Shapur I of Persia. He was thus the first emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war.

Syndexios

Melichrisus

Early Mithraic Leo from Novae whose name has been associated with the honey symbolism of the leonine grade.

Syndexios

Gaius Valerius Avitus

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

Syndexios

Aponius Rogatianus

Roman prefect commemorated in a rare dedication to Sol Apollo Anicetus Mithras at Rudchester.

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