The New Mithraeum Database

The Bad Ischl area has been inhabited since the time of the prehistoric Hallstatt culture. Documentary evidence of the settlement dates back to 1262, when it was referred to as Iselen.

Imperial slave and head of the customs statio of Esca in Noricum.

Of Isis and Osiris or Of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch, The Moralia.

Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.

Tracing the links between the cult of Mithras and the Proud Boys’ quest for identity, power, and belonging. How ancient rituals and brotherhood ideals resurface in radical modern movements.

Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.

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.

Peter Mark Adams: ‘The initiation was a frightening experience that caused some people to panic as a flood of otherworldly entities swept through the ritual space.’

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

The small Mithraic altar found at Cerro de San Albin, Merida, bears an inscription to the health of a certain Caius Iulius.

TNMM427 – CIMRM 795

The City of Darkness unique fresco from the Mithraeum of Hawarte shows the tightest links between the western and eastern worship of Mithras in Roman Syria.

TNMM344

A certain Secundinus, steward of the emperor, dedicated this altar to Mithras in Noricum, today Austria.

TNMM749 – CIMRM 1407

According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular.

TNMM43 – CIMRM 1664

This relief of Mithras slaying the bull was erected in Piazza del Campidoglio, moved to Villa Borghese and is now in the Louvre Museum.

TNMM131 – CIMRM 415, 416

The Mithraeum of Spoleto was found in 1878 by the professor Fabio Gori on behalf of Marquis Filippo Marignoli, owner of the land.

TNMM19 – CIMRM 673

This altar, which has now disappeared, was dedicated by the slave Quintio for the health of a certain Coutius Lupus.

TNMM520 – CIMRM 794

The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.

TNMM66